Download or read book Essay on the Life of Prince Henry the Navigator written by José da Cruz and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.