Em nome de Deus: The Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama to India, 1497-1499
Biographical note
Glenn J. Ames, Ph.D. (1987) in History, University of Minnesota, is Professor of History at The University of Toledo. He has published extensively on the Age of Discoveries and European expansion to Asia, including Vasco da Gama: Renaissance Crusader (2005) and The Globe Encompassed: The Age of European Discovery (2008).
Readership
All those interested in the history of the Renaissance, the history of Europe and European expansion, as well as African and Indian history from ca. 1450-1500.
Table of contents
Preface
Introduction
Background to Voyage
Vasco da Gama
Command of the 1497 Fleet
The Fleet and its Preparations
The Manuscript
Debate on Authorship
Significance
Ravenstein’s First English Edition
Da Gama’s Departure
The Voyage
The Atlantic: Lisbon to the Cape of Good Hope
From Santiago to the Bay of Saint Helena
The African Coast
Doubling the Cape of Good Hope
The Bay of São Brás
From São Brás to Malindi
Natal and the Land of Boa Gente
Rio dos Bons Sinais
Mozambique
The Shoals of São Rafael
Mombasa
Malindi
Across the Arabian Sea
Calicut
First Audience with the Samorin
A ‘Christian Church’
Presents for the Samorin
A Second Audience
Pandarane
The Fleet off Calicut
The Return Voyage
Anjediva
Mogadishu
Malindi
The Cape of Good Hope
The Journal Ends
Kingdoms to the South of Calicut
About Elephants
Prices of Spices at Alexandria
The Language of Calicut
Appendix I: Men in Da Gama’s Fleet
Appendix II: Accounts of Correia and Castanheda
Appendix III: Contemporary Letters
D. Manuel I to Ferdinand and Isabella
D. Manuel I to Cardinal Protector D. Jorge da Costa
First Two Letters of Girolamo Sernigi
Appendix IV: Honors Granted to Vasco da Gama
D. Manuel’s Grant of 24 December 1499
D. Manuel’s Grant of 10 January 1500
Appendix V: Da Gama’s Sailing Instructions to Cabral
Appendix VI: Calcoen: Da Gama’s Second Voyage
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
Background to Voyage
Vasco da Gama
Command of the 1497 Fleet
The Fleet and its Preparations
The Manuscript
Debate on Authorship
Significance
Ravenstein’s First English Edition
Da Gama’s Departure
The Voyage
The Atlantic: Lisbon to the Cape of Good Hope
From Santiago to the Bay of Saint Helena
The African Coast
Doubling the Cape of Good Hope
The Bay of São Brás
From São Brás to Malindi
Natal and the Land of Boa Gente
Rio dos Bons Sinais
Mozambique
The Shoals of São Rafael
Mombasa
Malindi
Across the Arabian Sea
Calicut
First Audience with the Samorin
A ‘Christian Church’
Presents for the Samorin
A Second Audience
Pandarane
The Fleet off Calicut
The Return Voyage
Anjediva
Mogadishu
Malindi
The Cape of Good Hope
The Journal Ends
Kingdoms to the South of Calicut
About Elephants
Prices of Spices at Alexandria
The Language of Calicut
Appendix I: Men in Da Gama’s Fleet
Appendix II: Accounts of Correia and Castanheda
Appendix III: Contemporary Letters
D. Manuel I to Ferdinand and Isabella
D. Manuel I to Cardinal Protector D. Jorge da Costa
First Two Letters of Girolamo Sernigi
Appendix IV: Honors Granted to Vasco da Gama
D. Manuel’s Grant of 24 December 1499
D. Manuel’s Grant of 10 January 1500
Appendix V: Da Gama’s Sailing Instructions to Cabral
Appendix VI: Calcoen: Da Gama’s Second Voyage
Bibliography
Index
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