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BACKROADS
Portugal
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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These 4 items are available
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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXPGL34) |
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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) |
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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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The Wine and Food Lover's Guide to Portugal
• Charles Metcalfe
FOOD •
2008 •
HARD COVER
• 446 PAGES
This oenophiles guide, organized geographically, focuses on Portuguese cuisine, vineyards and wine.
(PGL79, $32.95) |
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Portugal Map 733
• Michelin Travel Publications
MAP
A detailed map of Portugal at a scale of 1:400,000 --perfect for the traveler. One Side. 60x40 inches.
(PGL08, $14.95) |
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Also Recommended
Lonely Planet Portuguese Phrasebook
• Clara De MacEdo Vitorino
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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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 Concise History of Portugal
• David Birmingham
• HISTORY
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A straightforward and informative account of Portugal from prehistory to its zenith as a seafaring power and current day realities.
(PGL01, $25.99)
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Cork Boat, A True Story of the Unlikeliest Boat Ever Built
• John Pollack
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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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
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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
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A complicated, rewarding portrait, and the first biography of this empire-minded Portuguese prince in more than a hundred years.
(PGL25, $25.00)
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A Small Death in Lisbon
• Robert Wilson
• MYSTERY
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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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Alentejo Blue
• Monica Ali
• LITERATURE
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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)
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Baltasar and Blimunda
• Jose Saramago
• LITERATURE
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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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Blindness
• Jose Saramago
• Giovanni Pontiero
• LITERATURE
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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)
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Requiem: A Hallucination
• Antonio Tabucchi
• Margaret Jull Costa
• LITERATURE
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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
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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 Maias
• Jose Eca de Queiros
• LITERATURE
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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)
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