«The breeze carries the smell of thyme. Wild land south of Crete. We are attracted to an ageless old man sitting on a rock, his skin dry as the ground where he rests his feet. He looks at us and turns towards the coast. He only says two words accompa..

Sir Francis Drake, the famous English privateer, sailed in the southern waters of present-day Costa Rica during his voyage of circumnavigation of the planet. The author handles two parallel stories, that of the corsair and that of the indigenous sham..