General Editor William H. Goetzmann / Jack S. Blanton, Sr., Chair in History University of Texas at Austin Consulting Editor Tom D. Crouch Chairman, Department of Aeronautics National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institution
Consulting Editor Tom D. Crouch / Chairman, Department of Aeronautics National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institution
On the cover Map of the world; portrait of Gama from a 17th-century Portuguese manuscript Publisher Chelsea House Publishers Editor-in-Chief Richard S. Papale Managing Editor Karyn Gullen Browne Copy Chief Philip Koslow Picture Editor Adrian G. Allen Art Director Nora Wertz Manufacturing Director Gerald Levine Systems Manager Lindsey Ottman Production Coordinator Marie Claire Cebrian-Ume
World Explorers Series
Senior Editor Sean Dolan Staff fur VASCO DA GAMA AND THE PORTUGUESE EXPWRERS
Copy Editor Danielle Janusz Editorial Assistant Robert Kimball Green Picture Researcher Nisa Rauschenberg Senior Designer Basia Niemczyc Copyright© 1993 by Chelsea House Publishers, a division of Main Line Book Co. All rights reserved. Printed and bound in the United States of America.
First printing
135798642
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stefoff, Rebecca.
Vasco da Gama and the Portuguese Explorers/by Rebecca Stefoff; introductory essay by Michael Collins.
p. cm.-(World Explorers)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary: Discusses the travels of Vasco da Gama and other Portuguese explorers who helped establish an extensive empire for their country.
ISBN 0-7910-1303-0
0-7910-1526-2 (pbk.)
1. Gama, Vasco da, 1469-1524-Juvenile literature. 2. Discoveries (in geography)- Portuguese-Juvenile literature. 3. Portuguese in India-Juvenile literature. 4. Portugal-History-Period of discoveries, 1385-15~Juvenile literature. [1. Gama, Vasco da, 1469-1524. 2. Explorers. 3. Portugal-History – Period of discoveries, 1385-1580.] I. Title. II. Series. 92-14272
G282.S75 1992 CIP
910′.92 – dc20 AC
[B]
Category Exploration Language English
