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IBERIA (SPAIN & PORTUGAL)
Portugal
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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These 4 items are available
for $67, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXPGL12) |
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Journey to Portugal, In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture
• Jose Saramago
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2002 •
PAPER
• 464 PAGES
Jose Saramago's richly detailed account of his journey across Portugal in 1979. Saramago's impressions of the Portuguese landscape and people are combined with a dose of history, fiction and meditations. With black-and-white photos and maps.
(PGL23, $17.00) |
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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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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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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) |
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Also Recommended
Lisbon Map
• Streetwise Maps
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A handy folded, laminated street map of Lisbon in full color at a scale of 1:8,000.
(PGL54, $7.95)
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Culture Smart! Portugal
• Sandy Guedes de Queiroz
• GUIDEBOOK
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A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
(PGL53, $9.95)
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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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The Wine and Food Lover's Guide to Portugal
• Charles Metcalfe
• FOOD
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This oenophiles guide, organized geographically, focuses on Portuguese cuisine, vineyards and wine.
(PGL79, $32.95)
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Oceans of Wine, Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste
• David Hancock
• HISTORY
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Hancock's unexpectedly engrossing book explores the culture of wine in Madeira and trade in 18th century America.
(PGL86, $50.00)
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The Taste of Conquest, The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
• Michael Krondl
• HISTORY
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Weaving travel and history, Michael Krondl a world where pepper, cinnamon and cloves were as valuable as gold -- and Venice, Lison and Amsterdam jockeyed for global control.
(EUR279, $16.00)
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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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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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Small Memories
• Jose Saramago
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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In this contemplative memoir, the late Portuguese Nobel laureate recalls a childhood both dark and magical, split between the growing city of Lisbon and the tiny village of Azinhaga, where he was partially raised by his illiterate grandparents. Eventually teaching himself to read, Saramago has an almost religious conversion to the power of literature.
(PGL82, $13.95)
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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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Birds of Europe
• Lars Svensson
• FIELD GUIDE
• FAVORITE
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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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