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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/LO11970. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Lisbon City Map
Turinta Maps
A detailed, color map of Lisbon.
(PGL17, $12.95) |
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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) |
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Culture Smart! Portugal
Sandy Guedes de Queiroz
GUIDEBOOK
A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
(PGL53, $9.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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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