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Vasco Da Gama Books
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Vasco da Gama: Renaissance Crusader (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as vasco-da-gama)
avg rating 3.38 — 21 ratings — published 2004
The Three Voyages of Vasco da Gama, and His Viceroyalty (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as vasco-da-gama)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1964
A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco Da Gama, 1497-1499 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as vasco-da-gama)
avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published 2010
Holy War: How Vasco da Gama's Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as vasco-da-gama)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,327 ratings — published 2011
Unknown Seas: How Vasco Da Gama Opened The East (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as vasco-da-gama)
avg rating 4.22 — 92 ratings — published 2003
Vasco Da Gama (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as vasco-da-gama)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2011
The Lusiads (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as vasco-da-gama)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,331 ratings — published 1572
The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as vasco-da-gama)
avg rating 3.92 — 48 ratings — published 1997
“Vasco da Gama, on a cruise to India and back, encouraged his men to rinse their mouths with urine, which did nothing for their scurvy and can’t have done much for their spirits either.”
― At Home: A Short History of Private Life
― At Home: A Short History of Private Life
“Whilst the food we eat nowadays has much to be grateful to the likes of Marco Polo, Alexander the Great and Vasco De Gama, who would have introduced the tangy flavours of South Africa’s Rainbow Cuisine on his way around the Cape of Good Hope to India, Arabic cuisine, with spices of cinnamon, cloves, saffron and ginger was a lot more enterprising than Western cooking at the time. The medley of colours that the spices offered the food had mystical meanings to the Arabs”
― Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
― Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
