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Eyewitness Guide Portugal with Madeira & the Azores
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2008 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)
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)
The Food of Portugal
Jean Anderson
FOOD 1994 PAPER 304 PAGES
Even though she is not a native, Jean Anderson knows the food of Portugal. Falling in love with the country upon her first visit, she has returned more than 80 times. This book, winner of the "Best Foreign Cookbook of the Year" award, is the result of years of research, and hours spent in the kitchen. It is sure to please the palates of tourists interested in Portuguese food and of Portuguese emigrants in search of that authentic taste of home.
(PGL10, $19.95)
Portugal Map
Hildebrand
1998 MAP
A detailed map of Portugal at a scale of 1:400,000 --perfect for the traveler.
(PGL08, $11.95)
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)
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)
Cultural Atlas of Spain and Portugal
Mary Vincent
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
With its 40 maps, 240 photographs and insightful essays on all aspects of Iberian geography and culture, this handsome book is an excellent introduction to the region.
(SPN34, $45.00)
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. His vivid impressions of the Portuguese landscape and people are combined 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 mystery and 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, $14.00)
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, $14.00)
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 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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