In 1498 a young captain named Vasco da Gama sailed from Portugal, circumnavigated Africa, crossed the Indian Ocean, and
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Translated from the Portuguese, with Notes and an Introduction. The additional documents, mainly letters and reports to
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This volume of 31 essays provides an re-evaluation of Gama's voyage, the circumstances surrounding it, and its shor
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Describes the Civil War role of the Confederate warship Shenandoah, which prowled international waters destroying dozens
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Following the fortieth anniversary of Apollo 11, as NASA prepares to return astronauts to the moon, Footprints in the Du
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The Last Crusade in the West traces Castilian efforts to conquer Granada from the middle of the fourteenth century until
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Late in the tenth century, the Norse Vikings embarked on a voyage of no return. Leaving Iceland first for Greenland, fro
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