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The Last Crusade : The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama - Nigel Cliff

The Last Crusade

The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama

By: Nigel Cliff

eBook | 1 April 2012

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NEW YORK TIMES ' NOTABLE BOOK OF 2011
LONGLISTED FOR THE MARITIME MEDIA AWARDS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HESSELL-TILTMAN HISTORY PRIZE

In 1498 a young captain sailed from Portugal, circumnavigated Africa, crossed the Indian Ocean, and discovered the sea route to the Indies, opening up access to the fabled wealth of the East. It was the longest voyage known to history; the ships were pushed to their limits, their crews were racked by storms and devastated by disease. However, the greatest enemy was neither nature nor the fear of venturing into unknown worlds. With blood-red Crusader crosses emblazoned on their sails, the explorers arrived in the heart of the Muslim East at a time when the old hostilities between Christianity and Islam had intensified. In two voyages that spanned six years, Vasco da Gama would fight a running sea battle that would ultimately change the fate of three continents.

The Last Crusade is an epic tale of spies, intrigue, and treachery; of bravado, brinkmanship, and confused - often comical collisions - between cultures encountering one another for the first time. With the world once again tipping back East, The Last Crusade offers a key to understanding age-old religious and cultural rivalries resurgent today.

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Lively and ambitious... Cliff has a novelist's gift for depicting character... He brings sixteenth-century Portugal in all its splendor and squalor pungently to life
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