The career and legend of Vasco da Gama /
Subrahmanyam, Sanjay.
The career and legend of Vasco da Gama / Sanjay Subrahmanyam. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997. - xxiii, 400 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-390) and index.
Preface -- Overture: bones of contention -- The heritage of Santiago -- To Calicut and back -- The attempt to consolidate -- The wilderness years -- A career culminates -- Finale: the judgements of posterity -- Bibliography.
Presents the life and career of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama focusing on a blend of the facts and legends around him.
0521470722 9780521470728
96025106
Gama, Vasco da, 1469-1524.
Explorers--Portugal--Biography.
G286.G2 / S83 1997
ARCH FRBC 910.92 S941V
The career and legend of Vasco da Gama / Sanjay Subrahmanyam. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997. - xxiii, 400 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-390) and index.
Preface -- Overture: bones of contention -- The heritage of Santiago -- To Calicut and back -- The attempt to consolidate -- The wilderness years -- A career culminates -- Finale: the judgements of posterity -- Bibliography.
Presents the life and career of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama focusing on a blend of the facts and legends around him.
0521470722 9780521470728
96025106
Gama, Vasco da, 1469-1524.
Explorers--Portugal--Biography.
G286.G2 / S83 1997
ARCH FRBC 910.92 S941V