You may have sailed in the bay of Istanbul and taken a trip up the Bosporus and down the Sea of Marmara admiring the onion domes of the mosques in the seven-hilled old town; you may have gazed upon San Francisco Bay and the fog-covered Golden Gate Bridge on a balmy night enhanced by the […]
Porto Seguro: Brazil’s Discovery Coast
It was a dozen kilometres north of today’s Porto Seguro that Pedro Álvares Cabral claimed Brazil for the Portuguese Crown on 22 April 1500. Note that I don’t say discovered Brazil. It’s not out of an overtly strong sensitivity about the Eurocentric word ‘discovery’, no. It’s because he simply didn’t. There had been at least […]