A story of two Russian boys whose father suddenly returns home after a 12-year absence. He takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions.

Staden was born in Homberg in the Landgraviate of Hesse. He had received a good education and was in moderate circumstances when desire for travel led him to enlist in 1547 on a ship that was bound for Brazil. He returned from this first trip on 8 October 1548, and, going to Seville, enlisted for a second trip as a volunteer in an expedition for RÃo de la Plata which sailed in March 1549. On reaching the mouth of the river, two ships sank in a storm. After vainly trying to build a barque, part of the shipwrecked crew set out overland for AsunciÃn. The rest of the crew, including Staden (a knowledgeable gunman), sailed upon the third vessel for the island of SÃo Vicente, but were also wrecked. Staden, with a few survivors, reached the continent in 1552,[2] where he was hired by the Portuguese thanks to his knowledge of the cannon.[3]




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