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Children's Nonfiction Exploration & Discovery

Vasco da Gama: Quest for the Spice Trade

by (author) Katharine Bailey

Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Initial publish date
Mar 2007
Category
Exploration & Discovery, Historical, Geography
Recommended Age
8 to 12
Recommended Grade
4 to 5
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780778724575
    Publish Date
    Mar 2007
    List Price
    $10.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780778724216
    Publish Date
    Mar 2007
    List Price
    $25.95

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This exciting new book tells the story of the relentless and at times tyrannical explorer Vasco da Gama who helped Portugal search for a trade route to the lucrative spice trade of the Far East. Discover his role in the development of Portuguese spice plantations in India and New World colonies, and his involvement in the slave trade of Africa.

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Vasco da Gama: Quest for the Spice Trade (In the Footsteps of Explorers)

Discover the story of Vasco da Gama, the relentless and at times tyrannical explorer who helped Portugal earn its reputation as the leader of the Age of Exploration. In the late 1400s, he led three major expeditions to lands that Europeans had never explored. Contains photographs, illustrations, sidebars, glossary and index.

Source: The Canadian Children’s Book Centre. Best Books for Kids & Teens. 2008.

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