Five Black Ships: A Novel of the Discoverers
by Napoleon Baccino Ponce De Leon
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The sea voyage around the world by Magellan, the Portuguese navigator, in 1519, recreated by a Uruguayan writer. The epic is narrated by the fool of the fleet, Juanillo, a Jewish jester converted to Christianity during the Spanish inquisition. The novel won the Novela Casa de las Americas award.Tags
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This is the alternative version of Magellan's ground breaking trip written by Juanillo the jester, as his attempt to have his pension reinstated by the former king Carlos of Spain. Magellan was determined to find an alternative route to the Spice Islands, to open up the Portuguese hold on the trade of pepper, cloves....
Juanillo is a likeable character, a converted Jew in the times of the Inquisition, his commentary of the journey is peppered with personal stories of the sailors and his conversations with Magellan himself.
I found myself caught up in the tale very quickly, and even though I knew the bare bones of the story from history lessons, I still avidly was waiting for the events to unfold.
Juanillo is a likeable character, a converted Jew in the times of the Inquisition, his commentary of the journey is peppered with personal stories of the sailors and his conversations with Magellan himself.
I found myself caught up in the tale very quickly, and even though I knew the bare bones of the story from history lessons, I still avidly was waiting for the events to unfold.
MALUCO es el relato del viaje de Magallanes contado por el bufón de la flota, uno de los diecinueve sobrevivientes, en una carta que le dirige al rey muchos años después con el propósito de que se le restituya una pensión de la que ha sido privado por dar una versión de los hechos distinta de la oficial. Revelación de un genuino temple de narrador, MALUCO ha obtenido, entre cuatrocientas obras de veintinueve países, el Premio de Novela Casa de las Américas 1989
Feb 9, 2012Spanish
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MALUCO es el relato del viaje de Magallanes contado por el bufón de la flota, uno de los diecinueve sobrevivientes, en una carta que le dirige al rey muchos años después con el propósito de que se le restituya una pensión de la que ha sido privado por dar una versión de los hechos distinta de la oficial.
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- Original title
- Maluco. La novela de los descubridores
- Original publication date
- 1990
- People/Characters
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Important places*
- Molukken
- Important events
- Tocht naar de Molukken (1519); Circumnatigation of the World
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
- DDC/MDS
- 863 — Literature & rhetoric Spanish Literature Spanish fiction
- LCC
- PQ8520.26 .O66 .M3513 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Spanish literature Provincial, local, colonial, etc. Spanish America
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- 7 — Dutch, English, German, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish
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- Paper
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