{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Vasco da Gama - Part 5: Legacy of an epic voyage","description":"As the squadron rounded back into familiar waters, the passage home felt like a reckoning. On September tenth, 1499, the remaining vessels cut through the Tagus estuary and into the wharves of Lisbon.\r\n\r\nThey did not arrive as a single armada but as a handful of vessels marked by endurance: sails patched, ropes spliced and frayed, hulls darkened with salt and sea growth. The decks held the detritus of a long passage.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://theexplorationarchive.com/exploration/vasco-da-gama","author_name":"The Archive Network"}