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Book Review

Land, as Far as the Eye Can See: Portuguese in the Old West. By Donald Warrin and Geoffrey L. Gomes. (Spokane: Arthur H. Clark, 2001. 352 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $39.50.)

     "Only after the Portuguese had worked their way down the West African coast, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, crossed the Indian Ocean and established themselves in the Spice Islands of Indonesia and on the shore of the South China Sea; only after the Spaniards had attained the same goal by way of Patagonia, the Pacific Ocean, and the Philippines—then and only then was a regular and lasting maritime connection established between the four great continents" (Charles R. Boxer, Four Centuries of Portuguese Expansion, Berkeley, 1969, p. 17). . . .

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