Download or read book Vasco da Gama and his Successors, 1460–1580 written by K.G. Jayne and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vasco da Gama and His Successors (1970) looks at a range of Portuguese explorers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the most important being Vasco da Gama, whose first voyage to India ushered in a period of European conquest and empire, and established direct and permanent contact between Europe and the Far East.