The Last Crusade - The Epic Voyages of Vasco Da Gama

Informationen zum Autor Nigel Cliff Klappentext The first accessible, authoritative and complete account of Vasco da Gama's historic and audacious attempt to seize the spice routes and re-conquer the Holy Land. The first accessible, authoritative and complete account of Vasco da Gama's historic and audacious attempt to seize the spice routes and re-conquer the Holy Land . The Last Crusade puts the reader on da Gama's ships in the midst of a perplexing, terrifying, yet exciting new world and in doing so traces the ancestry of antagonism between the world's two dominant faiths, Christianity and Islam. Zusammenfassung The first accessible, authoritative and complete account of Vasco da Gama's historic and audacious attempt to seize the spice routes and re-conquer the Holy Land.

Product details

• Authors: Nigel Cliff, Nigel (Author) Cliff, Cliff Nigel
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.02.2013
• EAN: 9781848870192
• ISBN: 978-1-84887-019-2
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 42 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book; Islam, History, Eastern Europe, European History, HISTORY / Middle East / General, RELIGION / Islam / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Middle East, Christianity, Middle Eastern history