The Portugal Story
Three Centuries of Exploration and Discovery
Nonfiction, History, Spain & Portugal
| Author: | John Dos Passos | ISBN: | 9780307787064 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | March 2, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Doubleday | Language: | English |
| Author: | John Dos Passos |
| ISBN: | 9780307787064 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication: | March 2, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Doubleday |
| Language: | English |
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.”
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.”
