Spice and the Devil's Cave
By: Agnes Danforth Hewes ; illustrated by Lynd Ward
Contributors: Ward, Lynd, 1905-1985, illustrator
Edition: Dover edition.
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Mineola, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780486492872
Subjects: Explorers; Fiction; Jews; History
Description: In 1490s Portugal, Abel Zakuto, a Jewish banker with a keen interest in mapmaking and sea navigation, encourages explorers Magellan, da Gama, and Diaz to find the elusive sea route around the "Devil's Cave"--the Cape of Good Hope--to India, which would enable Portugal to dominate the spice trade.
Notes: "This Dover edition...is an unabridged republication of  the work originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, in 1930"--Copyright page.

Newbery Honor, 1931.