Summary
Joao Morgado: Fernando Magellan and the Bird of Paradise
»"On these pages, readers follow unusual episodes that originate from the experience of a personality who became immortal thanks to his exploits, and therefore everyone has heard of her, or read about her in literature, but readers would really like to get to know her up close. In order to reach this desire and get closer to the human being that Fernando Magellan was, we have to reach the dramas that he experienced and achievements for which he became so famous. This is precisely what is found in this work, which represents much more than dates, places and historical references. The whole work is an invitation to get to know Fernando Magellan as a man of flesh and blood, which he was, with his unusual nature, his fighting spirit, which enabled him to reach where no one before him had gone, but also with his frustrations, weaknesses and disappointments in life.
... João Morgado now allows the biography of Fernando Magellan to be discovered in an innovative way. By means of a journey through time and space, the reader follows step by step what is possible to offer about this historical event of that great captain. All this happens thanks to the creative genius of Joao Morgado and his great ability to recreate the environments in a language that respects the tone of the epoch without falling into the anachronism, making the work easy to read. let's immerse ourselves in the environment in which we cross the globe for the first time as if we were there five hundred years ago. It is not easy to capture such a powerful and dramatic life as that led by Fernando Magellan. However, Morgado has the talent and merit to have sought and succeeded in reaching the truth as far as possible, covering it with such careful and careful imagination, in order to give a new life to a person who rose to the state of immortality."
José Manuel García, historian
(from the preface to the Portuguese edition)"
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