The Portugal Story
Author: Passos, John Dos
ISBN: 9780385513630
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 01 Mar 1995
Pages: 424
Format: Paperback / softback
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.br>br> "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."
ISBN: 9780385513630
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 01 Mar 1995
Pages: 424
Format: Paperback / softback
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.br>br> "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."
