Portugal : A Companion History Paperback / softback
by Jose Hermano Saraiva
Paperback / softback
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Professor Saraiva's multi-volume History of Portugal is a celebratedscholarly standard work.
Yet, when he published a one-volume HistoriaConcisa, it proved a run-away best seller in Portugal, and the televisionseries that went with it became a chart-topper.
His latest book, producedespecially for Carcanet's Aspects of Portugal series, is a history of hiscountry, brief, acute and illuminating, written with scholarly insight andwith non-specialist foreign readers specifically in mind.
To this main text Ian Robertson, author of the well-known BlueGuide to Portugal, has added a historical gazeteer, brief biographies, chronological tables, maps and other elements which make this an essentialCompanion, the sort of book that a reader in need of accurate, brief andlucid reference will find useful, and every visitor to Portugal will findrewarding.
The book is generously illustrated.
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:180 pages
- Publisher:Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication Date:27/11/1997
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- ISBN:9781857542110
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:180 pages
- Publisher:Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication Date:27/11/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9781857542110