Author: Smith, Ronald Bishop; compiler:
Title: The First Age of the Portuguese Embassies, Navigations and Peregrinations to the Ancient Kingdoms of Cambay and Bengal (1500-152
Description: [Bethesda (MD)], [Decatur Press], (1969). orig.cloth. 23x16cm, 155 pp. Folding map.. Rubbed. Some page-edge soil. Good. ¶ Includes translations of extracts from Portuguese documents, letters, journals, etc. Contents: Embassies, Navigations & Peregrinations: The Kingdom of Cambay: Early Visits to Cambay 1500-1503; The Voyage of Vasco Gomes, 1506; The Capture of Tristão de Ga, Bastião Rodrigues, et al, 1508; The Voyage of Dom Francisco de Almeida to Diu...1508-09; The Wreck of the Santa Cruz...1510; The Embassy of the Gentile Resident of Cananor, 1510-1511...The Voyage of João Serrão to Diu, 1511; The Voyage of Estevão de Freitas to Diu, 1512; The Embassy of Tristão de Ga, 1512-1513; The Embassy of Diogo Fernandes de Beja: Fro,m Goa to Surat, 1514;..

Keywords: Portuguese Colonialism, India South Asia, Portugal Voyages, Explorations Travel, Diplomatic History, Diplomacy, Colonial Colony, Diu Goa Gujarat, Bengal