Vasco da Gama
By: Betty Lou Kratoville
Series: Trade route explorers; Trade route explorers
Publisher: High Noon
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Novato, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9781571281685
Subjects: Explorers; Biography; Discoveries in geography; Portuguese; Readers for new literates; Basic education; Reading (Adult education); High interest-low vocabulary books
Description: Examines the voyage of discovery undertaken by Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama in the fifteenth century in an attempt to sail around the southern tip of Africa in search of India and the Spice Islands.