A Long and Uncertain Journey: The 27,000 Mile Voyage of Vasco Da Gama

By Joan Elizabeth Goodman

Book Overview

Five years after Columbus sailed off to find a sea route to the Orient, the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama went on the same quest. His epic, 27,000 mile journey around the bottom of Africa was... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 096504937X
• ISBN13: 9780965049375
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Mikaya Press
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.2" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 4 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

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A memorable and enjoyable "window in time"

A Long And Uncertain Journey is the entertaining and informative picturebook story of Vasco da Gama's 27,000 mile exploratory journey in 1497. Sailing to discover a route to China just five years after Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama discovered what Columbus had not -- a sea route from Europe to China. Elizabeth Goodman blends a compelling, dramatic narrative with Tom McNeely's superbly drawn watercolors giving readers age 8 to 18 a memorable and enjoyable "window in time" to one of the truly outstanding feats in history.