Biography of the Portuguese prince and monk who sponsored expeditions along the west coast of Africa during the late middle ages.

A biography of that Portuguese prince whose vision and whose school of navigation significantly affected all later explorers who charted the unknown.

Studie over de centrale rol die prins Hendrik de Zeevaarder (1394-1460) speelde bij de eerste Portugese ontdekkingsreizen.

A biography of Portugal's national hero whose advanced ideas on geography and navigation opened the way for Columbus and other explorers.

The Prince Henry may be taken as a symbol of wishes and efforts of anonymous navigators, cartographers, of cosmographers, merchants and adventurers who helped modern man to build new dimensions to the perspective of the world. A prince of remarkable qualities that worked in favor of the Kingdom and of the Catholic religion, with projects, subject to successes and failures, stubborn in realizing their desires, and a man deeply marked by the conditions and conveniences of life of his time. It is to mention that the author was awarded with the prize Henriquino, in 1960, in Portugal.