The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 29 October 1998
- ISBN 9780521646291
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages428 pages
- Size 228x153x25 mm
- Weight 610 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 30 b/w illus. 4 maps 0
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Short description:
A revisionist account of Vasco da Gama, discoverer of the India sea route, 1497-99.
MoreLong description:
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 This book, based on a mass of published and unpublished sources in Portuguese and other languages, delineates Gama's career and social context, focusing on the delicate balance between 'career' and 'legend'.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-building and nationalism, while never losing sight of Gama himself.
'... exhaustively documented, and dense with information.' The Times Literary Supplement
Table of Contents:
Preface; 1. Overture: bones of contention; 2. The heritage of Santiago; 3. To Calicut and back; 4. The attempt to consolidate; 5. The wilderness years; 6. A career culminates; Finale: the judgements of posterity; Bibliography.
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