The Spanish Geographical Society and the Rafael del Pino Foundation expressed their interest in the publication of a highly popular book explaining the history of the discoveries, developed by the historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto, highlighting the role of Spanish travellers and explorers, which is very poorly recorded in Anglo-Saxon historiography. This research was published in 15 languages. The first Spanish edition was entitled "Los conquistadores del horizonte. A world history of exploration" (Destino).
The book shows that for some 100,000 years, human communities have been separating from each other after long migrations, developing distinct cultures. This diversity of cultures is perhaps the great glory of mankind. There are other social creatures - apes, for example, monkeys, ants, whales, rats - but none of them have experienced a history of divergence and therefore exchange like ours, nor the possibility of enrichment and progress that comes with it. Since contacts between cultures began to be re-established, world history consists of the narrative of the exchanges that have taken place: the procedures by which human cultures have initiated contacts, imitated, influenced or adopted new systems of life, building the world we inhabit, involved in a network of communications that links the entire planet.
