- Vasco da Gama: Round Africa to India, 1497-1498 CE
Excerpts from his journal from the Modern History Sourcebook.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1497degama.html
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Vasco da Gama
Profile of the discoverer of the sea route to East Indies.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/06374a.htm
- Admiral Dom Vasco da Gama
Brief profile and images of the explorer and Knight Commander of the Military Order of Christ.
www.angelfire.com/ak/militaryorders/vascogama.html
- Wikipedia: Vasco da Gama
User-edited article on the Portuguese explorer to have sailed directly from Europe to India. Contains biography and the various voyages.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_da_gama
- Voyage to India and Those Who Influenced It
Essay describing the background to Vasco da Gama's voyage to India.
marauder.millersv.edu/~columbus/papers/elliott-1.html
- Sea Route to India & Vasco da Gama
Article and animated maps showing Portuguese exploration along the African coast and da Gama's 1497 trip to Goa on the west Indian coast.
www.acs.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/vasco.html
- Project X 1497-1999
Poetry-multimedia installation exploring discovery, technology, and colonialism. Begins with a revisioning of Vasco da Gama's first voyage in 1497 from Portugal, around Africa, to India.
projectx.damianlopes.com
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