ABSTRACT
Portuguese blue water literature reconceptualized space, while creating the notion of a global world. Astonishingly cartographical, poetry, theater, and prose written in sixteenth-century Portugal trace a fresh consciousness of scientific and technological domain over long-distance navigation, thus, the globe. Wonderous and realistic tales about safely accessing what was remote, by portraying novel vocabulary ways to convey distance and reckoning the effect that faraway events have in local reality, inscribed an emerging and collective mental story in Europe based in the lived experience at sea. A story about having no fear of sailing to the end of the world and then returning, a story of believing that if there was more world, they would get there.
