We have finished the
American Edition of our book

It is not a translation of our Portuguese Edition. It is an American version.

We are very grateful to our Editor, Dr. Nelson Dias Martins, and our sons, Manuel and José, and our special friend Etelvino Andrade for  their very careful  reviews of the entire text.

We wanted our book to be a pure American Edition and we are  very pleased  we obtained our objective. The book has 352 pages, 52 chapters, 78 diagrams and documents and 139 photos most in color.

The American Edition is even more outspoken than the Portuguese Edition.  The American and Canadians historians continue to belittle the Portuguese maritime  achievements and therefore there is a need  to remove their masks of hypocrisy. It is about time two Americans citizens have the guts to get the historical  facts straight. 

A copy of  the original of our book has been submitted on June 1st, 2007,  to the Copyright  Office in the Library of the Congress.

All our originals have already been received  by our Publisher.

We do no know yet when the American Edition is coming out of the press.  We will inform you when  the proper  time comes.

Now we are going to concentrate in giving answers to more than seven thousand e-mails we received since January, 2007. We had to stop answer them  to use  the time to concentrate totally in our  American Edition.

Keep reading our website, because from now on we will be start adding  to it a variety of Medical, Historical and Social articles.

Many thanks for your consideration.

(a) Manuel Luciano  da Silva  and Sílvia Jorge da Silva