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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $47, including
U.S. shipping, a 20% discount (Item no. EXPGL24)
 
Eyewitness Guide Lisbon  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2003 •  PAPER  • 192 PAGES
A compact illustrated guide to the city featuring excellent neighborhood maps, and hundreds of color photographs. It also includes chapters on the surrounding areas and Lisbon coast. With select listings of shops, restaurants, cafes, bars and hotels. (PGL04, $20.00)
  Eyewitness Guide Lisbon
Lonely Planet Portuguese Phrasebook  •  Clara De MacEdo Vitorino
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS •  2006 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES
A handy pocket phrasebook for Portuguese basics, covering pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (PGL34, $8.99)
 
A Traveller's History of Portugal  •  Ian Robertson
HISTORY •  2002 •  PAPER  • 352 PAGES
A lively, admirably concise survey from prehistory to the present, great for travelers to Portugal who would like an overview of the country's history and culture. The author has also written the Blue Guides to both Portugal and Spain. (PGL32, $14.95)
  A Traveller's History of Portugal
Lisbon Map  •  Borch Maps
2006 •  MAP
A handy laminated street map of Lisbon in full color at a scale of 1:14,000. (PGL54, $7.95)
 



Also Recommended
Lisbon City Map  •  Turinta Maps    •  A detailed, color map of Lisbon. (PGL17, $12.95)
 
 
Portugal Map  •  World Mapping Project    •  A double-sided road map of Portugal at a scale of 1:500,000, perfect for travelers. (PGL51, $9.99)
 
 
Culture Smart! Portugal  •  Sandy Guedes de Queiroz   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (PGL53, $9.95)
 
 
Fodor's Lisbon's 25 Best  •  Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This slim guide to Lisbon includes an excellent map of the city center and essential information on its highlights. (PGL40, $11.95)
 
 
South Wind Through the Kitchen, The Best of Elizabeth David  •  Elizabeth David   • FOOD  •  A selection of 200 recipes and travel essays from Elizabeth David's nine influential books, including Book of Mediterranean Food and French Country Cooking. (MED30, $18.95)
 
 
The Food of Portugal  •  Jean Anderson   • FOOD  •  An award-winning cookbook featuring the cuisine of Portugal and background on Portuguese culture. Sure to please the palates of tourists interested in Portuguese food, and of emigrants in search of that authentic taste of home. (PGL10, $19.95)
 
 
A Concise History of Portugal  •  David Birmingham   • HISTORY  •  A straightforward and informative account of Portugal from prehistory to its zenith as a seafaring power and current day realities. (PGL01, $23.99)
 
 
Cork Boat, A True Story of the Unlikeliest Boat Ever Built  •  John Pollack   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  This endearing tale of family, loss and friendship revolves around a deliciously absurd childhood quest to build a boat of cork and sail it 133 miles on Portugal's Douro River. (PGL42, $14.95)
 
 
Journey to Portugal, In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture  •  Jose Saramago   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Jose Saramago's richly detailed account of his journey across Portugal in 1979. He combines his vivid impressions of the Portuguese landscape and people with a dose of history, fiction and meditations. (PGL23, $17.00)
 
 
Prince Henry "the Navigator," A Life  •  Peter E. Russell   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A complicated, rewarding portrait, and the first biography of this empire-minded Portuguese prince in more than a hundred years. (PGL25, $21.00)
 
 
A Small Death in Lisbon  •  Robert Wilson   • MYSTERY  •  Set in Lisbon in 1941 and 1999, this award-winning mystery intertwines a present day murder, some unsavory arms production, and smuggling in Nazi Germany. Be warned, there are some graphic passages dealing with the horrors of war and concentration camps. (PGL22, $7.99)
 
 
Baltasar and Blimunda  •  Jose Saramago   • LITERATURE  •  This tale of two unlikely lovers in Inquisition-era Portugal is arguably Saramago's masterwork: a philosophically charged, intellectually rigorous historical drama which is also a captivating read. (PGL26, $15.00)
 
 
Requiem: A Hallucination  •  Antonio Tabucchi  •  Margaret Jull Costa   • LITERATURE  •  Tabucchi's fever-dream tour of a vanishing Lisbon. The narrator, an "adopted Portuguese," returns after many years and visits cemeteries, brothels and gentlemen's clubs, in an ambiguous search for the ghosts of his past. (PGL09, $12.95)
 
 
The History of the Siege of Lisbon  •  Jose Saramago  •  Giovanni Pontiero   • LITERATURE  •  In this historical novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author, the past is rewritten when a Portuguese proofreader adds a false word to a history book, resulting in a whole new perception of the Siege of Lisbon. (PGL11, $14.00)
 
 
The Lusiads  •  Luis De Camoes   • LITERATURE  •  A 16th-century account of Vasco De Gama's voyage to India modeled after Virgil's "Aeneid." (PGL12, $12.95)
 
 
The Maias  •  Jose Eca de Queiros   • LITERATURE  •  This sprawling family epic is worthy of comparison to the greatest accomplishments of Proust and Tolstoy. It's the story of the decline of an affluent Lisbon family, beautifully capturing time and place. (PGL07, $17.95)
 
 
Birds of Europe  •  Killian Mullarney  •  Lars Svensson  •  Dan Zetterstrom  •  Peter J. Grant   • FIELD GUIDE • FAVORITE  •  A Princeton field guide to European birds, featuring 3,500 color illustrations that depict 722 species found across the continent. (FG47, $29.95)
 
 

 
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