This special volume of the Portuguese Navy History collection highlights the importance of Pedro Álvares Cabral's voyage in the history of maritime expansion, which, in addition to being the official act of discovering the sea route to Brazil, was also the largest fleet organized until then.
This volume provides a documented answer to the controversy between the randomness and intentionality of the discovery of the sea route to Brazil, defending, in irrefutable nautical and geographical terms, Pedro Álvares Cabral's purpose of landing on known land.
