THREE VOYAGES OF VASCO DA GAMA, AND HIS VICEROYALTY by Gaspar Correa, Henry Edward John Stanley (Trans) ( 9780511697494 )

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Title:

THREE VOYAGES OF VASCO DA GAMA, AND HIS VICEROYALTY
FROM THE LENDAS DA INDIA OF GASPAR CORREA; ACCOMPANIED BY ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS

By:

Gaspar Correa, Henry Edward John Stanley (Trans)

Format:

Electronic book text

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ISBN 10:

051169749X

ISBN 13:

9780511697494

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

5 August, 2011

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series

Translated from:

Portuguese

Description:

This volume from the Hakluyt Society (published in 1869) contains a contemporary account of Vasco da Gama's expeditions to India.

Synopsis:

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Vasco de Gama (c. 1460-1524) was a Portuguese explorer who commanded the first European expedition to sail directly to India. He was later appointed Viceroy of Portuguese India in 1524. This volume, first published in 1869, contains an account of his expeditions written by the Portuguese historian Gaspar Correa (c. 1496-c. 1563), taken from his book Lendas da India. His work is an important contemporary history of Portuguese colonialism in India, using contemporary sources not available to later Portuguese historians.

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3 b/w illus.

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Imprint:

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

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Non-returnable

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