Three voyages of Vasco da Gama, and his viceroyalty: from the Lendas da India of Gaspar Correa; accompanied by original documents

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 The first series,which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir FrancisDrake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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 explorerwho commanded the first European expedition to sail directly to India. He waslater appointed Viceroy of Portuguese India in 1524. This volume, first published in 1869, contains an account of his expeditions written by the Portuguesehistorian 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. INDICE: Introduction; The first voyage of Vasco da Gama; The second voyageof Vasco da Gama; The third voyage of Vasco da Gama and his viceroyalty; Appendices; Index.

• ISBN: 978-1-108-01137-2
• Editorial: Cambridge University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 568
• Fecha Publicación: 03/06/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés