portugal

Recounts how the sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer launched the first voyage around the world, although he met his death before his men completed the expedition.

A biography of that Portuguese prince whose vision and whose school of navigation significantly affected all later explorers who charted the unknown.

Discusses the Spanish explorers and their conquests.

Presents the story of the Portuguese explorer who became the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean and whose expedition completed its voyage around the world after his death en route.

Describes da Gama's expeditions to the Cape of Good Hope, the East Indies, and Calicut.

Presents a biography of the daring Portuguese sea captain who commanded the first expedition that sailed around the world.

Presents a biography of the Portuguese navigator who commanded the first expedition to sail around the world.

An illustrated biography of Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese explorer who opened the sea route between Europe and India in the late fifteenth century.