English: Red: Route taken by Pedro Alvares Cabral from Portugal to India in 1500. Dark blue: return route.

Main sources used for information on Cabral's routes:

• Barata, Mario. O descobrimento de Cabral e a formacao inicial do Brasil . Coimbra: Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra, 1991.
• Bueno, Eduardo. A viagem do descobrimento: a verdadeira historia da expedicao de Cabral . Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, 1998. ISBN   8573022027
• Diffie, Bailey Wallys; Boyd C. Shafer; George Davison Winius. Foundations of the Portuguese empire, 1415?1580 (v.1). Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 1977. ISBN   0816607826
• Greenlee, William Brooks. The voyage of Pedro Alvares Cabral to Brazil and India: from contemporary documents and narratives . New Delhi: J. Jetley, 1995.
• McClymont, James Roxbury. Pedraluarez Cabral (Pedro Alluarez de Gouvea): his progenitors, his life and his voyage to America and India . London: Strangeways & Sons, 1914.
• Newitt, M. D. D. A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400?1668 . New York: Routledge, 2005. ISBN   041523980X

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