Adventures and Encounters
Subtitle: Europeans in South-East Asia (Oxford in Asia Paperbacks)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: February 8, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9789676530905
Subjects: Biography: general; Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; History - General History; Colonies And Colonization; Travel; ASIA; South East Asia; Southeast Asia; Asia - Southeast Asia; History / Southeast Asia; Asia, Southeastern; Asia - Southeast; Special Interest - Adventure; Description and travel; Europeans
First sentence: In November 1497, after a grim struggle with the adversities of the sea around the Cape of Good Hope, Vasco da Gama led the first major European incursion into the Indian Ocean, the gateway to South-East Asia.