The Portugal Story: Three Centuries of Exploration and Discovery

By John Dos Passos

Book Overview

This selective history of Portugal reflects the author's fascination with his own Portuguese/Madeiran heritage. The work tracks the nation's rise and fall as a world power, drawing from the author's travels and archival research. "Dos Passos," writes historian J. H. Plumb, "brings to his material a novelist's acute eye for human character and a narrative skill that any historian might envy; and he has produced one of the most readable books on the subject that I know."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385513631
• ISBN13: 9780385513630
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"