Moderately chipped and soiled dust-jacket with small section missing from bottom edge front cover. ; 14 x 22 cm.; pg. xii, 296 ; Preface, introduction, bibliography, index; maps on endpapers. An account of the voyages and exploits of the Portuguese navigators, together with the life and times of Dom Vasco Da Gama, Capitao-Mor, Viceroy of India and Count of Vidigueira. "The documentation of the Emanueline era is scanty, and contemporary accounts of the Portuguese voyages still remain, for the most part, untranslated and unavailable to the student. The aim of the present volume is to fill this gap, to give a survey of the Portuguese contribution to the discovery of the Eastern world (as far as India) , and to include a fuller presentation of the figure of Vasco da Gama than has heretofore been written. "

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