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Eyewitness Guide Portugal

Eyewitness Guide Portugal

by Eyewitness Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 496 PAGES

Featuring hundreds of photographs and drawings, an excellent overview of the culture and history, and good information about where to go and what to do. (PGL05, $25.00)

A Traveller's History of Portugal

A Traveller's History of Portugal

by 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. (PGL32, $14.95)

Journey to Portugal, In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture

Journey to Portugal, In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture

by Jose Saramago

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 464 PAGES

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)

Portugal Map 733

Portugal Map 733

by Michelin Travel Publications

  • MAP

At a scale of 1:400,000, this fully indexed map also includes insets of Madeira and city maps. (PGL08, $14.95)

 

Lisbon Map


by Streetwise Maps

  • MAP

A handy folded, laminated street map of Lisbon in full color at a scale of 1:8,000. (PGL54, $7.95)

Culture Smart! Portugal

Culture Smart! Portugal


by Sandy Guedes de Queiroz

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 168 PAGES

A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (PGL53, $9.95)

Fodor's Lisbon's 25 Best

Fodor's Lisbon's 25 Best


by Fodor's

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 128 PAGES

This slim guide to Lisbon includes an excellent map of the city center and essential information on its highlights. (PGL40, $11.99)

Lonely Planet Portuguese Phrasebook

Lonely Planet Portuguese Phrasebook


by Clara De MacEdo Vitorino

  • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

A handy pocket phrasebook for Portuguese basics, covering pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (PGL34, $8.99)

The Spanish Table, Traditional Recipes and Wine Pairings from Spain and Portugal


by Steve Winston

  • FOOD
  • 2009
  • HARD COVER
  • 224 PAGES

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)

The Wine and Food Lover's Guide to Portugal

The Wine and Food Lover's Guide to Portugal


by Charles Metcalfe

  • FOOD
  • 2008
  • HARD COVER
  • 446 PAGES

This oenophiles guide, organized geographically, focuses on Portuguese cuisine, vineyards and wine. (PGL79, $32.95)

Lisbon, War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945


by Neill Lochery

  • HISTORY
  • 2011
  • HARD COVER
  • 306 PAGES

Lochery's tale of prime minister Antonio de Oliveira Salazar and his efforts to remain neutral during WWI in this gripping tale of exiled royalty, refugees, spies, secret police, bankers, prominent Jews, writers and artists, escaped POWs, black marketers and others who sought refuge in WWI-era Lisbon. (PGL87, $27.99)

Oceans of Wine, Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste


by David Hancock

  • HISTORY
  • 2009
  • HARD COVER
  • 632 PAGES

Hancock's unexpectedly engrossing book explores the culture of wine in Madeira and trade in 18th century America. (PGL86, $50.00)

Cork Boat, A True Story of the Unlikeliest Boat Ever Built

Cork Boat, A True Story of the Unlikeliest Boat Ever Built


by John Pollack

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 291 PAGES

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)

Prince Henry

Prince Henry "the Navigator," A Life


by Peter E. Russell

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 448 PAGES

A complicated, rewarding portrait, and the first biography of this empire-minded Portuguese prince in more than a hundred years. (PGL25, $25.00)

Alentejo Blue

Alentejo Blue


by Monica Ali

  • LITERATURE
  • 2007
  • PAPER

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

Baltasar and Blimunda


by Jose Saramago

  • LITERATURE
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 343 PAGES

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


by Jose Saramago | Giovanni Pontiero

  • LITERATURE
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 327 PAGES

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)

The Lusiads


by Luis De Camoes

  • LITERATURE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 258 PAGES

A 16th-century account of Vasco De Gama's voyage to India modeled after Virgil's "Aeneid." (PGL12, $12.95)

The Maias

The Maias


by Jose Eca de Queiros

  • LITERATURE
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 633 PAGES

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

Birds of Europe


by Lars Svensson

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 416 PAGES
  • 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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