A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499

A Viagem de Vasco da Gama à Índia, 1497-1499

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Sinners and saints : the successors of Vasco da Gama 9780195644265, 0195644263

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The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama 0061735132, 9780061735134

In 1498 a young captain named Vasco da Gama sailed from Portugal, circumnavigated Africa, crossed the Indian Ocean, and

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Vasco Da Gama and the Linking of Europe and Asia 0195651812, 9780195651812

This volume of 31 essays provides an re-evaluation of Gama's voyage, the circumstances surrounding it, and its shor

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Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742 9781503621459

The European discovery of the northwest coast of America is fully and dramatically recorded in this journal, an invaluab

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Journal of a Residence in Siam and of a Voyage Along the Coast of China to Mantchou Tartary

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The Voyage of the Beagle

In 1831, the twenty-two-year old Charles Darwin embarked on the Royal Navy ship H.M.S. Beagle as it set off on what was

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A Soldier of the Seventy-First: The Journal of a Soldier in the Peninsular War 0900075899, 9780900075896

First published in 1819, this memoir covers Whitelocke's disastrous South American adventure in 1806, the Penisular

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John James Audubon's Journal of 1826: The Voyage to The Birds of America [1 ed.] 9780803236134, 9780803225312

John James Audubon, an early American naturalist and painter, produced one of the greatest works of natural history and

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Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, on Discovery 1108071813, 9781108071819

John Rickman, second lieutenant on one of the two ships commanded by James Cook on his last expedition, wrote this journ

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