Three Voyages of Vasco da Gama, and his Viceroyalty
From the Lendas da India of Gaspar Correa; accompanied by original documents

This volume from the Hakluyt Society (published in 1869) contains a contemporary account of Vasco da Gama's expeditions to India.

Gaspar Correa (Author), Henry Edward John Stanley (Translated by)

9781108011372, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 June 2010

568 pages, 3 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 3.2 cm, 0.71 kg

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Vasco de Gama (c. 1460–1524) was a Portuguese explorer who commanded the first European expedition to sail directly to India. He was later appointed Viceroy of Portuguese India in 1524. This volume, first published in 1869, contains an account of his expeditions written by the Portuguese historian Gaspar Correa (c. 1496–c. 1563), taken from his book Lendas da India. His work is an important contemporary history of Portuguese colonialism in India, using contemporary sources not available to later Portuguese historians.

Introduction
The first voyage of Vasco da Gama
The second voyage of Vasco da Gama
The third voyage of Vasco da Gama and his viceroyalty
Appendices
Index.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]