Conquerors: How Portugal seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire by Roger Crowley

Conquerors: How Portugal seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire

Roger Crowley

412 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous slow-paced
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As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat...

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