Portugal: A Companion History (Aspects of Portugal S.)

By José Hermano Saraiva

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857542118
• ISBN13: 9781857542110
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.7" x 5.0"