Contributions by Eric Axelson, Charles Boxer, Graham Bell-Cross & Colin Martin.
159 pages, 32 charts in colour and black & white, brown cloth, a very good copy in the dust jacket.
\'Bartolomeu Dias in 1488 rounded Africa and entered the Indian Ocean, with vital consequences for both Europe and Asia. The voyage was epoch-making. This volume, published on the fifth centenary of the voyage, contains information about the Dias voyage and subsequent Portuguese maritime activities in South African waters; it includes a section on the development of Portuguese nautical science, especially of maritime cartography, during the period of the Discoveries and into the seventeenth century\'. Editor\'s note.
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