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Title:

A journal of the first voyage of Vasco da Gama, 1497-1499. Translated and edited with notes, an introduction and appendices, by E.G. Ravenstein ...

Publisher:

Printed for the Hakluyt Society,

Copyright Date:

1898

Description:

xxxvi, 250 p. incl. illus., plates, ports., facsims. front., maps (part fold.) 23 cm.

Subject:

Gama, Vasco da,--1469-1524.--cn

Other Authors:

Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913, ed. and tr.
Sá, João de, supposed author.
Velho, Alvaro, supposed author.

Notes:

Appendices: Two letters of King Manuel, 1499.--Girolamo Sernigi's letters, 1499.--Three Portuguese accounts of Vasco da Gama's first voyage, 1608, 1612, 1646.--Vasco da Gama's ships and their equipment.--Muster-roll of Vasco da Gama's fleet.--The voyage.--Early maps illustrating Vasco da Gama's first voyage.--Honours and rewards bestowed upon Vasco da Gama, 1499-1524. First English translation of the Roteiro da viagem de Vasco da Gama, believed by some authorities to be the work of Alvaro Velho. Editor favors João de Sá as author rather than Velho. Bibliographical footnotes.

Series:

Works issued by the Hakluyt Society. no. XCIX

LCCN:

02002629

Locations:

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)