A Wind From the North
“I am not a Portuguese scholar or a historian of any distinction, so it may seem an impertinence to have attempted a biography of Portugal’s great national hero. My interest in Prince Henry came about by accident. Some years ago, I was sailing in a small yacht from Gibraltar to the West Indies and by chance called in at the port of Safi on the Moroccan coast. There was one building that immediately impressed me—and which still remains in my memory—the old Portuguese fortress on the heights surmo...unting the town. It was the first I had ever seen, but I know now that there are many such fortresses on lonely coves and headlands throughout the world, or overlooking flourishing cities and big modem ports. They are the monuments to the Portuguese sailors and pioneers who opened the sea lanes of the world, and blazed the trail that was afterward followed by all the other maritime nations. It was on this same voyage that I sailed to the Canaries, and then took my departure for the New World from the Cape Verde Islands.MoreLess
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