Download or read book Albuquerque written by Tom Earle and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the remarkable people who first opened up the rest of the world to the Europeans Columbus, Magellan, Vasco da Gama, Pizarro and Cortes Afonso de Albuquerque, governor of Portuguese India from 1509 to 1515, was one of the most astonishing.