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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Career And Legend Of Vasco Da Gama by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Vasco da Gama (?14691524) 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 allsea route to India in 149799. This book based on a mass of published and unpublished sources in Portuguese and other languages delineates Gamas career and social context focusing on the delicate balance between career and legend. The book addresses broad questions of mythbuilding and nationalism while never losing sight of Gama himself.