The Last Crusade
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The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco Da Gama
By NIGEL CLIFF"In 1498 a young captain named Vasco da Gama sailed from Portugal, circumnavigated Africa, crossed the Indian Ocean, and discovered the sea route to the Indies and, with it, access to the fabled wealth of the East.
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The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama
By NIGEL CLIFFThe Last Crusade is an epic tale of spies, intrigue, and treachery—of bravado, brinkmanship, and confused, often comical collisions between cultures—offering a surprising new interpretation of the broad sweep of history.
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The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama
By NIGEL CLIFFpope. Rome's inhabitants, he added, “have been throwing and illicitly hiding entrails, viscera, heads, feet, bones, blood, and skins, besides rotten meat and fish, refuse, excrement, and other fetid and rotting cadavers into the streets ...
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The Last Crusade: Americanism and the Islamic Reformation
By Michael A. PalmerThe pope's call for a crusade was a direct response to Christian Anatolia's invasion by the Seljuk Muslim Turks, who had then set up their capital in Nicaea—the town that in 325 had been the site of the important Council of Nicaea and ...
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The Last Crusade: A Novel
By Alan MussellThe Pope promised the Crusaders cancellation of all debt, both material and spiritual, as payment for a service of ... to hold himself back, he burst out, “Will they never stop until they have murdered everyone, every last one of us?
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The Last Crusade
By S.J.A. TurneyThe Pope had been unable to find a Frankish lord or an Iberian one willing to lead such a crusade, for the former had been allied neighbours of these Cathars for decades, while the latter had their own troubles in their own land, ...
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The Last Crusade: A Novel
By Alan MussellStruggles of a boy, Jean, orphaned during the Crusades, and how he comes to terms with faith, friendship, and love.
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The Last Crusade
By Warren Hasty CarrollWhy be satisfied with leftist propaganda on the Spanish Civil War? Carroll's treatment of the events of 1936 is singular in Anglo-American scholarship for seeing the conflict for what is...
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The Last Crusade
By Billy GrahamPreviously published as "Living in God's Love," the three sermons and photosfrom Billy Graham's historic 2005 New York Crusade are inspirational messagesof the transforming power of Christ's love.