'The year is 1947 - Carlos slips over the orphanage wall in search of the village girl who has captured his heart.
'From that moment, his is a life at sea, a life that moves across the globe and across generations, lived on the turning tides of love affairs, friendships and enmities.' (From the publisher's website.)
Epigraph:
Gotta mix, gotta mingle,
hup to three,
over the hungry mountains and over the hungry seas.