Paperback • 1998 • English

The Career and Legend of Vasco Da Gama

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By Sanjay Subrahmanyam

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About the book

Vasco da Gama (?1469–1524) is well known as one of a generation of discoverers, along with Magellan, Cabral, and Columbus. Yet little is known about his life, or about the context within which he ‘discovered’ the all-sea route to India in 1497–99. This book, based on a mass of published and unpublished sources in Portuguese and other languages, delineates Gama’s career and social context, focusing on the delicate balance between ‘career’ and ‘legend’. The book addresses broad questions of myth-b...Show more

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9780521646291

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

1998

Language

English

Original title

The Career and Legend of Vasco Da Gama

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Paperback

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