​ The author ​ ​Moreno Salvatore before to be a sailor was a traveler. He was born in 1956 in the green Umbria, an Italian region not touched by the sea, an element that has always attracted him since the adolescent. He has been skippering and running sailboats since 1979. Moreno has was always fascinated with the sea, history and traveling. Having sailed the Mediterranean, he has also voyaged around the coasts of Brittany through to Ireland and the Aran Islands via Fastnet rock. Prior to sailing to South America, Moreno sailed to the northern high latitudes crossing the Arctic Polar Circle and continuing to 70° North. During this passage he visited England, Scotland and Norway. In his voyages, between northern and southern hemispheres, Moreno has covered more than 50,000 nautical miles, from the Artic Polar Circle to Antarctica.