The Mapmaker

Description for THE MAPMAKER by Frank G Slaughter:

FROM BITTER CAPTIVITY TO ERERNAL FAME

For eight years he had been called El Hakim---the learned one--enslaved by Moorish pirates. But in fact, he was Andrea Bianco, master mapmaker, proud citizen of Venice

During the long years of captivity, he had traveled with caravans to the fabled Orient. Now, having escaped the Moors only to be betrayed by his treacherous half-brother, he found himself in the service of the great Prince Henry, the Navigator.

And so it was that Andrea Bianco charted the immortal voyage around the tip of Africa to reach the fabulous wealth of the East--though each day would take him farther from the arms of the exquisite Angelita.