Barcelona vasco da gama biography book

Caravan magazine, in a recent review of one of Subrahmanyam's collection of essays quoted his response in the context of the debate between writing popular/readable history versus academic history.

The document provides biographical details about Vasco da Gama, the famous Portuguese explorer.

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Book, has been to outhne the biographies of certain representative Portuguese of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, giving some account of the society.

Vasco Da Gama and the Sea Route to India Rachel A. Koestler-Grack,William H. Goetzmann, This Portuguese.

The feats of Portuguese explorers, such as Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama, are covered in great depth.

The quote is reproduced here:

“such readable books cannot replace or do away with the proper academic monograph, which is based on textual or archival research, and can’t be read that easily by non-academics ... we are constantly trying to push the frontiers of research, rather than those of readability”.
Full review can be found here: http://caravanmagazine.in/books/maste...

After browsing through "The career and legend of Vasco da Gama', I've got a fair understanding of what historiography means, what it means to be a 'historian' in the classical sense and my own inadequacy in grasping the amount of detail which Subrahmanyam gathers and disburses through the pages.

But somehow, being a native of Calicut, this was one book that