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The last crusade : Vasco da Gama and the birth of the modern world by Cliff, Nigel is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is The last crusade : Vasco da Gama and the birth of the modern world about?
In 1497, the last bastions of Christendom were crumbling. The Ottomans had sacked the Vatican, Iberia was under Arabian control and the tidemark of Islam threatened Paris. Against this hostile backdrop, four ships left the shores of Portugal under the charge of a young Christian captain, Vasco de Gama. His mission was as quixotic as it was audacious: cut off Islamic wealth by seizing the spice routes, and re-conquer the Holy Land. Outmanned and outgunned, with the crosses of the crusades emblazo
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Cliff, Nigel
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780857897749
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Adventure, History, Spain
- Updated
- 2026-03-25