The Last Crusade: And the Birth of the Modern World by Nigel Cliff

The Last Crusade: And the Birth of the Modern World

Nigel Cliff

560 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history religion adventurous challenging informative medium-paced
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Offers an account of Vasco da Gama's historic and audacious attempt to seize the spice routes and re-conquer the Holy Land. This book puts the reader on da Gama's ships in the midst of a perplexing, terrifying, yet exciting new world and in doing ...

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