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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $66, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXPGL18)		  
Eyewitness Guide Portugal  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 496 PAGES
A compact, visual travel guide to the country featuring hundreds of photographs and drawings, an excellent overview of the culture and history of Portugal, and good information about where to go and what to do. With many excellent regional, local and neighborhood maps. We also carry a guide to Lisbon (PGL04, $20.00) in the same series. (PGL05, $25.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Portugal
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
Cork Boat, A True Story of the Unlikeliest Boat Ever Built  •  John Pollack
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2005 •  PAPER  • 291 PAGES
Spend an evening with John Pollack's oddly endearing tale. Sure, he does (finally!) build a boat out of wine corks and sail it all of 133 miles on the Douro in Portugal, but that's not the story. His is a bittersweet and altogether touching tale of family, career and careerism, friendship and loss. Pollack, a talented young Washington speechwriter now living in New York, wraps his search for a place in the world around a deliciously absurd childhood fantasy. Like Witold Rybczynski (who provided a backcover blurb), the book made us smile -- and brought a lump to the throat. You can see pictures of the boat and read more about it at corkboat.com. (PGL42, $14.95)		   Cork Boat, A True Story of the Unlikeliest Boat Ever Built
Portugal Map 733  •  Michelin Travel Publications
2012 •  MAP
A detailed map of Portugal at a scale of 1:400,000 --perfect for the traveler. One Side. 60x40 inches. (PGL08, $12.95)		   Portugal Map 733



Also Recommended

Culture Smart! Portugal  •  Sandy Guedes de Queiroz   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (PGL53, $9.95)
 		  
Lonely Planet Portuguese Phrasebook  •  Clara De MacEdo Vitorino   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A handy pocket phrasebook for Portuguese basics, covering pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (PGL34, $8.99)
 		  
Rough Guide Portugal  •  Rough Guide   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive, frequently revised and personable guide to Portugal, its history, culture and attractions, in the series by the British publisher. The book deftly combines an overview of the country with practical travel information. (PGL31, $24.99)
 		  
The Food of Portugal  •  Jean Anderson   • FOOD • COMING IN  •  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, $19.99)
 		  
The Spanish Table, Traditional Recipes and Wine Pairings from Spain and Portugal  •  Steve Winston   • FOOD  •  Full of traditional recipes and wine pairings as well as helpful tips for using paella pans, cazuelas, cataplanas, ollas and other cookware unique to the region. (SPN415, $30.00)
 		  
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, $25.99)
 		  
The Spanish Inquisition  •  Cecil Roth   • HISTORY  •  This documents the events leading up to the Inquisition, the torment that spread from Spain to Portugal and the New World -- a fascinating exploration of the roots of the Inquisition and its effects on the country. (SPN91, $15.95)
 		  
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, $25.00)
 		  
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)
 		  
Alentejo Blue  •  Monica Ali   • LITERATURE  •  These short stories set in the Alentejo province of Portugal star a range of colorful expats and locals, including Teresa, a beautiful young girl from the village engaged to a suitable man, who yearns to see the world, and Vasco, a cafe owner losing business to the new Internet cafe down the road. (PGL58, $14.00)
 		  
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)
 		  
Blindness  •  Jose Saramago  •  Giovanni Pontiero   • LITERATURE  •  In this challenging and disturbing allegory, an epidemic of "white blindness" strikes an anonymous city. A Nobel Prize-winning novel from the acclaimed Portuguese novelist. (PGL19, $15.00)
 		  
Night Train to Lisbon  •  Pascal Mercier   • LITERATURE  •  Obsessed with a book, Raimund Gegorius abandons his old life and travels to Lisbon in search of the truth about writer Amadeu de Prado. (PGL67, $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 atmospheric story of the decline of an affluent 19th-century Lisbon family. (PGL07, $17.95)
 		  
Birds of Europe  •  Lars Svensson   • FIELD GUIDE • FAVORITE  •  Featuring 3,500 glorious paintings by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom, the second revised edition of this exquisite guide has been brought up to date with revised text and maps. (FG47, $29.95)
 		  
 
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