expeditions organized by Henry the Navigator, to the last expedition of Vasco da Gama, but also a description of “the life and times of Don Vasco da Gama.” We must give Hart justice: he coped with this task much better than any of his predecessors - historians of geographical discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries or writers. In the vast majority of cases, the facts reported by the author have been critically verified. The result, despite the small volume of the book, is a comprehensive summary of everything we know about the life of Vasco da Gama and his three expeditions, especially the first, which played an important role not only in Portuguese, but also in world history.

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