Diego Pinzon and the Fearful Voyage He Took into the Unknown Ocean A.d. 1492

The year is 1492. On European maps, the Atlantic holds only monsters and blank space. In the Andalusian convent of La Rábida, sixteen-year-old Diego Pinzon watches history gathering like a storm, and he wants desperately to be part of it. Diego is clever, restless, the nephew of the formidable Martin Alonzo Pinzon who will captain one of Columbus's three ships. Against his father's fears, he stows away aboard the Pinta, entering a world of scurvy, secret plotting, and seas so vast they break men's minds. As the unknown stretches before the three fragile ships, Diego must navigate not just uncharted waters but the treacherous currents of family pride, rivalries with his condescending cousin, and a crew growing restless with fear. Somewhere ahead lies a land no European has ever seen, but first he must survive the crossing. Written in 1892, this historical adventure captures the terror and wonder of that first voyage from the perspective of youth, when the future was still just a question waiting to be answered across the Atlantic.