The Portugal Story
Three Centuries of Exploration and Discovery
$35.34
- Paperback
424 pages
- Release Date
1 March 1995
Summary
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.”
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385513630 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0385513631 |
| Author: | John Dos Passos |
| Publisher: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Doubleday Dell |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 424 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 1995 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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John Dos Passos
John Dos Passos(1896-1970) was born in Chicago and graduated from Harvard in 1916. His service as an ambulance driver in Europe at the end of World War I led him to writeThree Soldiersin 1919. A prolific travel writer, biographer, playwright, and novelist, he is an American classic of the twentieth century. Dos Passos is the author of Manhattan Transfer, Three Soldiers, 1919, and many more.
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