TY - BOOK AU - Camões,Luís de AU - Mickle,William Julius TI - The Lusiad; Or, The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem AV - PQ PY - 2010/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Gama, Vasco da, 1469-1524 -- Poetry KW - Explorers -- Portugal -- Poetry KW - India -- Discovery and exploration -- Poetry KW - Portugal -- Colonies -- Asia -- Poetry KW - Epic poetry, Portuguese -- Translations into English KW - Portuguese poetry -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- Translations into English N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Os_Lus%C3%ADadas; Release date is 2010-05-26; Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Lusiad; Or, The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem" by Luís de Camões is a Portuguese epic poem first published in 1572. Written in ten cantos with over a thousand stanzas, this national masterpiece celebrates Vasco da Gama's voyage to India. Gods debate Portugal's fate while heroes face supernatural forces and treacherous seas. Through grand speeches and vivid descriptions, Camões transforms historical exploration into mythic adventure, elevating Portuguese sailors to legendary status and securing their place among history's greatest seafaring nations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32528 ER -