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Introduction: Napoleon Baccino Ponce de Leon's Five Black Ships |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK: Napoleon Baccino Ponce de Leon's Five Black Ships |
| Author: Editor |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 10/1/1994 |
| Size: 366 Words, 2,246 Characters |
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In recent years, many writers have described the age of European exploration as one of atrocities. The record of the conquest of indigenous peoples, of their exploitation and conversion, has tarnished the reputations of Columbus, Magellan, and Cortes, among others. Napoleon Baccin...
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...d fiction, Baccino opts for fiction. She also notes a striking similarity between the relationship of Magellan and Juanillo and that of Don Quixote and his squire, Sancho Panza. In an interview with literary scholar Marie-Lise Gazarian-Gautier, Baccino explains that this novel, which he considers his "ode to liberty," was in fact written while he was a virtual prisoner in his native Uruguay.
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