Twenty-five years after Columbus lands in the New World and a few short years before Cortés marched on Tenochtitlan, three young boys, like so many thousands of others, vanish across the mysterious and uncrossable Ocean Sea.
Let’s return to 1517.
Based on true events.
From the sunbaked hills of Extremadura to the tangled jungles of Tierra Firme and beyond. Follow the journey of those who have been lost to history but were eyewitnesses to the most improbable encounters the world has ever seen.
Lured by whispers of gold, giants, and fantastical empires, young men are driven towards the endless watery horizon. This is not simply a tale of exploration. This is the unraveling of a generation’s worth of tavern tales. Follow the boys from Zafra as they witness and experience what it was really like to cross the Vast Ocean Sea.
The only known sea chart of the New World in 1517
Book 1: Across the Vast Ocean Sea
“Many tales come through others’ words. Some come from what we see. But the ones we never forget are the ones we’ve lived.”
