Sails and shadows : how the Portuguese opened the Atlantic and launched the slave trade /
"The Portuguese conquered the challenges of sailing the unforgiving Atlantic Ocean, extending their colonial empire along Africa's western shores. With their dedication to developing new sailing techniques and a groundbreaking new understanding of weather patterns and ocean currents, the P...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2026]
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Table of Contents:
- Nature intervenes
- Around the Bulge : Bojador, 1434
- From mistaken expectations to conquest : the Sahara, 1434-1444
- How trading replaced conquest, 1444-1460
- Language : how slave interpreters established trade
- A Painted ship upon a Painted Ocean, 1460-1470
- Gold at Last : the Route to Mina, 1470-1480
- A Star to steer her by
- The deepest river and the oldest desert, 1480-1486
- A first glimpse of the Indian Ocean, 1486-1488
- Crisscrossing the Atlantic, 1497
- Encounters along the African Coast and in India
- A dreadful mistake : the return from India
- The salty tears of the Atlantic.