Children's Nonfiction Exploration & Discovery
Vasco da Gama: Quest for the Spice Trade
- Publisher
- Crabtree Publishing Company
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2007
- Category
- Exploration & Discovery, Historical, Geography
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780778724575
- Publish Date
- Mar 2007
- List Price
- $10.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780778724216
- Publish Date
- Mar 2007
- List Price
- $25.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 8 to 12
- Grade: 4 to 5
Description
This exciting new book tells the story of the relentless and at times tyrannical explorer Vasco da Gama who helped Portugal search for a trade route to the lucrative spice trade of the Far East. Discover his role in the development of Portuguese spice plantations in India and New World colonies, and his involvement in the slave trade of Africa.
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Librarian Reviews
Vasco da Gama: Quest for the Spice Trade (In the Footsteps of Explorers)
Discover the story of Vasco da Gama, the relentless and at times tyrannical explorer who helped Portugal earn its reputation as the leader of the Age of Exploration. In the late 1400s, he led three major expeditions to lands that Europeans had never explored. Contains photographs, illustrations, sidebars, glossary and index.Source: The Canadian Children’s Book Centre. Best Books for Kids & Teens. 2008.