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Portugal(Paperback)
A Companion History
Carcanet Press Ltd
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27/11/1997
An illustrated brief history of Portugal written for non-specialist foreign readers. Also included in the book is a historical gazetteer, short biographies, chronological tables and maps.
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Yellow Sofa and Other Stories(Hardback)
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19/08/1993
The title novella was originally entitled "Alves and Company" and is a tale of seduction and bourgeois susceptabilities. It is accompanied by a selection of Eca de Queiro''s short stories.
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The Christian Century in Japan, 1549-1650(Hardback)
Carcanet Press Ltd
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23/09/1993
A study of the century that began with the establishment of a Jesuit mission in Japan by St Francis Xavier in 1548, saw the conversion of 300,000 people and ended with the rise of the Shoguns to abs...
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The Golden Age of Brazil, 1695-1750(Hardback)
Carcanet Press Ltd
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30/03/1995
Subtitled "Growing Pains of a Colonial Society", Professor C.R. Boxer's book explores how the small European kingdom of Portugal established the vast colony of Brazil, extending to almost half the a...
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SIN OF FATHER AMARO(hardback)
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25/08/1994
Shows the author as an acute observer of life in a provincial cathedral city and a sharp critic of the clerical establishment, moved by the predicament of women - tightly swaddled in conformities ye...
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The Sin of Father Amaro(Hardback)
Carcanet Press Ltd
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25/08/1994
Jacinto, an absentee noble from Portugal, revels in joyous extreme in the latest of French sophistications. Circumstances compel his return to his family estates where he rediscovers the values and ...
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The Grand Peregrination(Hardback)
Carcanet Press Ltd
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01/02/1990
First published in 1949, this classic biography of Fernao Mendes Pinto, one of the greatest adventurers after Marco Polo, was unavailable for years. Maurice Collis (1889-1973) spent more than twenty...
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A Centenary Pessoa(Hardback)
Carcanet Press Ltd
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25/05/1995
This is a collection of poetry and prose by the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa. The poems are written as if by four different people, complete with their own styles and biographies. The book also...
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