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Companion History of PortugalJose SaraivaEdited by Ian RobertsonTranslated by Ursula Fons![]() 10% off eBook (Kindle)
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Imprint: Aspects of Portugal Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (240 pages) (Pub. Nov 1997) 9781857542110 Out of Stock eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Nov 1997) 9781847779779 £14.95 £13.45 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
Professor Saraiva's multi-volume History of Portugal is a celebrated scholarly standard work. Yet, when he published a one-volume Historia Concisa, it proved a run-away best seller in Portugal, and the television series that went with it became a chart-topper. His latest book, produced especially for Carcanet's Aspects of Portugal series, is a history of his country, brief, acute and illuminating, written with scholarly insight and with non-specialist foreign readers specifically in mind.
To this main text Ian Robertson, author of the well-known Blue Guide to Portugal, has added a historical gazeteer, brief biographies, chronological tables, maps and other elements which make this an essential Companion, the sort of book that a reader in need of accurate, brief and lucid reference will find useful, and every visitor to Portugal will find rewarding. The book is generously illustrated. |
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