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	Publisher: Gyan Publishing House, New Delhi
	Author Vasco Da Gama
	Language: English
	Pages: 250 (B/W Illustrations)
	Cover: HARDCOVER
	9x6 inch
	Weight 520 gm
	Edition: 2024
	ISBN: 9789362083289
	HBW752

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About the Book "A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco Da Gama, 1497-1499" recounts Vasco Da Gama's pivotal journey to India, authored by Da Gama himself and initially published in 1898. This historical narrative chronicles the arduous voyage from Portugal to India, detailing the crew's trials, interactions with locals, and notable discoveries. Offering vivid descriptions of people, places, and events encountered, the book serves as a significant historical artifact shedding light on early European exploration and its global ramifications. Essential reading for those intrigued by exploration, trade, and colonial history.

About the Author Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira, was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His initial voyage to India by way of Cape of Good Hope was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route, connecting the Atlantic and the Indian oceans.

About the Editor Ernst Georg Ravenstein (1834-1913), a German-English geographer and cartographer, focused on cartography and geographical history. After joining the British War Office, he became influential in geographical societies and academia. Ravenstein's works include the groundbreaking "Systematic Atlas" and contributions to world atlases. He estimated world population growth and proposed theories of migration, still relevant today. Additionally, he established the German Gymnastics Society in London, promoting physical fitness and organizing sporting events.

Introduction HE discovery of an ocean route to India, in 1497-98, marks an epoch in the history of geographical exploration no less than in that of commerce. It confirmed the hypothesis of a circumambient ocean, first put forward by Hecataeus, but rejected by Ptolemy and his numerous followers; and, at the same time diverted into a new channel the profitable spice trade with the East which for ages had passed through Syria and Alexandria. In consequence of this diversion Venice lost her monopoly, and Lisbon became for a time the great spice-market of Europe. But Portugal was a small country whose resources were hardly even equal to the task of waging the continuous wars with the Moors in which she had so unwisely been engaged for generations past.

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