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The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama
Barcelona vasco da gama biography book
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“such readable books cannot replace or do away with the proper academic monograph, which is based on textual or archival research, and can’t be read that easily by non-academics ... we are constantly trying to push the frontiers of research, rather than those of readability”.
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After browsing through "The career and legend of Vasco da Gama', I've got a fair understanding of what historiography means, what it means to be a 'historian' in the classical sense and my own inadequacy in grasping the amount of detail which Subrahmanyam gathers and disburses through the pages.
But somehow, being a native of Calicut, this was one book that