Naves negras

In the East, where were the riches of the legendary islands of spices, the kingdoms of Conchinchina or the almost unknown Chinese Empire, the Spanish and Portuguese ships exercised an undeniable dominance for centuries. "Black Ships", kurofune, was the name by which the inhabitants of Japan knew them when they arrived on its shores in the 16th century. A time of splendor, a magical century opened with the discovery of the South Sea - baptized as the Pacific in 1513 by Vasco Núñez de Balboa-, expanded with the exploration of the southern coast of New Guinea by Luis Váez de Torres, and closed with the location of the main archipelagos of Oceania. A century in which the Pacific, despite the many enemies that Spain had, became a lake of her property, without this situation altering in the least any incursion of the English corsairs. What the reader is dealing with ranges from the Spanish plan to invade China to the conflicts in Borneo, Brunei, Cambodia, Japan and the Philippine islands. A book of navigators, explorers, missionaries and warriors.