BarkellWH -> RE: Early Christmas presents (Nov. 30 2021 21:18:26)
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Looks like you are in for a Christmas treat with your books on flamenco, Konstantin. At the risk of transgressing the forbidden "Off-Topc" category, I will state that I have placed my request for Christmas with my Brazilian Santa Claus (my wife), a book entitled "Conquering the Pacific," by Andres Resendez, a professor of history at the University of California, Davis. It tells the story of the 1564-65 Spanish voyage across the Pacific and return by Andres de Urdaneta, but it focuses on a little known member sailing with the fleet who completed the "ida y vuelta" voyage from Mexico to Manila, an Afro-Portuguese navigator and pilot named Lope Martin. The voyage opened up the Pacific to Spanish trade with the Far East and laid the groundwork for the famed Manila Galleons over the next two and one-half centuries, carrying Mexican and Peruvian silver to Manila and returning with goods from the Orient. It also broke the Portuguese monopoly on trade with the Far East. Bill
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