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Before Ferdinand Magellan crossed an ocean, he had to survive the war for India.
In 1505 Fernão de Magalhães sails with Viceroy Francisco de Almeida's armada as a gentleman-volunteer with no station and no fortune. On the Atlantic crossing a squall, and a hard decision by the ship's master, teach him what the sea costs, and he asks for work at the guns and the pump instead of glory.
The voyage turns out to be a siege train: forts stormed on the Swahili coast, towns burned, prizes taken and lost, and a war against Calicut in which courage earns a clerk's receipt while court favorites are handed ships. As fever grinds the fleet down and the Zamorin's great fleet makes ready, Magalhães must decide what kind of seaman he means to become.
