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Vasco da Gama : Renaissance crusader / Glenn J. Ames.
- Title
- Vasco da Gama : Renaissance crusader / Glenn J. Ames.
- Author
- Ames, Glenn Joseph
- Publication
- New York : Pearson/Longman, c2005.
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 172 p. : ill., maps; 20 cm.
- Summary
- Examines the life and career of Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama, telling of his voyages in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and discussing his influence on the course of world history.
- Series Statement
- Library of world biography
- Uniform Title
- Library of world biography
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Editor's preface -- Author's preface -- Life of Vasco da Gama: a chronology -- 1: Allure of the sea: Africa and beyond, 1415-1497 -- 2: Epic first voyage: preparations and the Coasts of Africa, 1497-1498 -- 3: Epic first voyage: India and the return home, 1498-1499 -- 4: Spoils of success: wealth, fame, and a second voyage to India, 1499-1503 -- 5: Good life: family and fortune in Portugal, ca 1504-1523 -- 6: Viceroy of India, 1524: the culmination of a life and a career -- Epilogue -- Note on the sources -- Major personalities -- Glossary -- Index.
- ISBN
- 0321092821 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2004048712
- OCLC
- 55700290
- SCSB-10513400
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library