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Conquerors

- How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
Af: Roger Crowley Engelsk Paperback

Conquerors

- How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
Af: Roger Crowley Engelsk Paperback
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''A rare gift . . . The story he has to tell may be a thrilling one but not every historian could tell it so thrillingly.'' Financial Times
''Magnificently rip-roaring history . . . Bursting with colour and excitement.'' Dominic Sandbrook

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.

Conquerors 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, Crowley 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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''A rare gift . . . The story he has to tell may be a thrilling one but not every historian could tell it so thrillingly.'' Financial Times
''Magnificently rip-roaring history . . . Bursting with colour and excitement.'' Dominic Sandbrook

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.

Conquerors 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, Crowley 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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 432
ISBN-13: 9780571290901
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0571290906
Kategori: 15. århundrede, 1400 til 1499
Udg. Dato: 4 aug 2016
Længde: 28mm
Bredde: 129mm
Højde: 198mm
Forlag: Faber & Faber
Oplagsdato: 4 aug 2016
Forfatter(e): Roger Crowley
Forfatter(e) Roger Crowley

Kategori 15. århundrede, 1400 til 1499

ISBN-13 9780571290901

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 432

Udgave

Længde 28mm

Bredde 129mm

Højde 198mm

Udg. Dato 4 aug 2016

Oplagsdato 4 aug 2016

Forlag Faber & Faber