Table of Contents

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.

Promotional Information

A revisionist account of Vasco da Gama, discoverer of the India sea route, 1497–99.

Reviews

'... exhaustively documented, and dense with information.' The Times Literary Supplement 'Subrahmanyam is an exemplary scholar. His knowledge of the subject is unsurpassed.' The Sunday Times ' ... a book notable as much for its formidable scholarship as for the boldness and breadth of its conception'. Cultura ' ... an outstanding biography ... which makes it easy to follow Vasco Da Gama's career'. Business Standard