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The first accessible, authoritative and complete account of Vasco da Gama's historic and audacious attempt to seize the spice routes and re-conquer the Holy Land.

In 1498 a young captain sailed from Portugal, circumnavigated Africa, crossed the Indian Ocean, and discovered the sea route to the Indies, opening up access to the fabled wealth of the East. It was the longest voyage known to history; the ships were pushed to their limits, their crews were racked by storms and devastated by disease. However, the greatest enemy was neither nature nor the fear of venturing into unknown worlds. With blood-red Crusader crosses emblazoned on their sails, the explorers arrived in the heart of the Muslim East at a time when the old hostilities between Christianity and Islam had intensified. In two voyages that spanned six years, Vasco da Gama would fight a running sea battle that would ultimately change the fate of three continents.

The Last Crusade is an epic tale of spies, intrigue, and treachery; of bravado, brinkmanship, and confused -often comical collisions -between cultures encountering one another for the first time. With the world once again tipping back East, The Last Crusade offers a key to understanding age-old religious and cultural rivalries resurgent today.

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Nigel Cliff

Nigel Cliff nasceu em Manchester, Inglaterra, em 1969. É historiador, biógrafo, tradutor e crítico. Estudou na Universidade de Oxford, que lhe atribuiu, em 2022, o grau de Doutor em Letras, em reconhecimento de um conjunto de trabalhos de importância internacional. Foi bolseiro do Harris Manchester College, Oxford, de 2016 a 2021 e do Royal Literary Fund de 2017 a 2019. É crítico de teatro e cinema para o jornal londrino Times e escreve no The Economist, a revista online Tencent e outras publicações. Vive em Londres com a mulher, a bailarina Viviana Durante, e o filho. 

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