A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama, 1497–1499

Written by E.G. Ravenstein

Translated and Edited, with Notes, an Introduction and Appendices. Includes also letters of King Manuel and Girolamo Sernigi, 1499, and early seventeenth-century Portuguese accounts of da Gama’s first voyage. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1898.
A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama, 1497–1499

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