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Conquerors - How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire (Paperback, Main)
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Conquerors - How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R318
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As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the
history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But
Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds,
launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the
Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating
the first long-range maritime empire. In an astonishing blitz of
thirty years, a handful of visionary and utterly ruthless empire
builders, with few resources but breathtaking ambition, attempted
to seize the Indian Ocean, destroy Islam and take control of world
trade. Told with Roger Crowley's customary skill and verve, this is
narrative history at its most vivid - an epic tale of navigation,
trade and technology, money and religious zealotry, political
diplomacy and espionage, sea battles and shipwrecks, endurance,
courage and terrifying brutality. Drawing on extensive first-hand
accounts, it brings to life the exploits of an extraordinary band
of conquerors - men such as Afonso de Albuquerque, the first
European since Alexander the Great to found an Asian empire - who
set in motion five hundred years of European colonisation and
unleashed the forces of globalisation.
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