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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $67, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXPGL13)
 
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)
  Eyewitness Guide Portugal with Madeira & the Azores
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
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)
  The Food of Portugal
Portugal Map  •  Hildebrand
1998 •  MAP
A detailed map of Portugal at a scale of 1:400,000 --perfect for the traveler. (PGL08, $11.95)
  Portugal Map



Also Recommended
Algarve Map  •  World Mapping Project    •  A comprehensive, double-sided road map of the Algarve at the detailed scale of 1:100,000, perfect for travelers. (PGL50, $9.99)
 
 
Lisbon Map  •  Borch Maps    •  A handy laminated street map of Lisbon in full color at a scale of 1:14,000. (PGL54, $7.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
Bradt Guide Cape Verde Islands  •  Aisling Irwin  •  Colum Wilson   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical travel guide to the Cape Verde islands, including its cultural and natural history. (ATL07, $22.95)
 
 
Cadogan Guide Madeira & Porto Santo  •  Cadogan Guide   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A guidebook in the respected British Cadogan series, this comprehensive look at Madeira and Porto Santo provides insightful cultural and historical background, and up-to-date practical information. (SPN21, $19.95)
 
 
Culture Smart! Portugal  •  Sandy Guedes de Queiroz   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (PGL53, $9.95)
 
 
Eyewitness Guide Lisbon  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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's coast. (PGL04, $20.00)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
Portuguese in 60 Minutes  •  Inc. Berlitz International   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  (PGL66, $9.95)
 
 
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, $22.99)
 
 
Portuguese Cooking  •  Robertson,Carol   • FOOD  •  Carol and David Robertson have traveled extensively in Portugal, and that depth of experience resonates throughout this happy blend of travel guide and cookbook. Carol's lively journal entries and witty drawings, accompanied by David's evocative photographs, showcase the wonders of the Portuguese landscape, culture, and cuisine. The first half of the book describes each region and its people. The second half is a stylish cookbook containing simple, delicious dishes. (PGL68, $18.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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. 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, $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, 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, $25.00)
 
 
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 story of the decline of an affluent Lisbon family, beautifully capturing time and place. (PGL07, $17.95)
 
 
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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