The whaling ship San Juan has been chosen by UNESCO as its logo to symbolise the world?s underwater cultural heritage. Built around 1560, this galleon was witness to the production and success of the Basques at sea. This book sheds new light on the innate maritime craft of this nation, and is a chronicle of its extraordinary contributions to the world, with figures who made the sea the true essence of Basque character and development. This is the seafaring Basque Country seen from an exciting new viewpoint, through the prism of the replica of the whaling ship San Juan.