A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499

Translated and Edited with Notes an Introduction and Appendices. Includes also letters of King Manuel and Girolamo Sernigi 1499 and early seventeenth-century Portuguese accounts of da Gama's first voyage. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1898. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the following maps which appeared in the first edition: 'Natal to Malinde' 'The West Coast of India' 'Africa from the Cantino Chart' 'Africa and India from Canerio's Chart' and 'The Indian Ocean according to the Mohit'.