TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sanjay Subrahmanyam
TI  - The career and legend of Vasco da Gama 
SN  - 0521470722
U1  - 910.92 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Explorers
N2  - 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 This book, based on a mass of published and unpublished sources in Portuguese and other languages, delineates Gama's career and social context, focusing on the delicate balance between 'career' and 'legend'.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
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