The Portugal Story: Three Centuries of Exploration and Discovery

Authors: Dos Passos, John
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: HIS045000
ISBN: 9780307787064, Related ISBNs: 0307787060, 0385513631, 9780307787064, 9780385513630
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 424,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: 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.”
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