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The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
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| #1540903 in Books | Cambridge University Press | 1998-12-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.98 x.94 x5.98l,1.40 | File type: PDF | 428 pages | ||8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| Well researched and cited study of Gama's career; somewhat lacking in narrative storytelling|By Matthew NYC|Vasco da Gama is one of the great heros of the Portuguese Age of Exploration. This book is a well written and very thorough look at his career and exploits, particularily the impact of political maneuvering within the Portuguese nobility at the time. The author has transl||'... exhaustively documented, and dense with information.' The Times Literary Supplement
'Subrahmanyam is an exemplary scholar. His knowledge of the subject is unsurpassed.' The Sunday Times
' ... a book notable as much for its formidable
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 This book, based on a mass of published and unpublished sources in Portuguese and other languages, delineates Gama's career and social context, focusing on the delicate balance between 'career' and 'legend'.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 ...
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