This biography traces the dramatic life and career of Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer whose voyages played a pivotal role in expanding the Portuguese empire and creating ...

The voyage of Vasco da Gama to India (1497-1499) was one of the seminal events of the Renaissance period. An anonymous Journal kept by a member of his fleet has long served as ...

1910. With twenty-one illustrations and map. The author's intention in this book is to outline the biographies of certain representative Portuguese of the fifteenth and ...