The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama

ISBN-13: 9780521646291 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 428 str.

Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Soc

Opis

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 This book, based on a mass of published and unpublished sources in Portuguese and other languages, delineates Gama's career and social context, focusing on the delicate balance between 'career' and 'legend'.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."

Recenzje

' … an outstanding biography … which makes it easy to follow Vasco Da Gama's career'. Business Standard

Spis treści

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.