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A fresh take on the history of the age of discovery...Cliff opens new vistas on much-explored territory. --Publishers Weekly

Lively and ambitious...Cliff has a novelist's gift for depicting character...he brings 16th century Portugal in all its splendor and squalor pungently to life. --Eric Ormsby, New York Times Book Review

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Nigel Cliff is a historian, biographer, and translator. His first book, The Shakespeare Riots, was a finalist for the National Award for Arts Writing and was chosen as one of the Washington Post's best books of the year. His second book, The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama, was a New York Times Notable Book. His most recent book is a translation and edition of The Travels by Marco Polo. A former film and theater critic for the London Times and contributor to The Economist, he writes for a range of publications, including the New York Times Book Review. A Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford, he lives in London.

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