The Portugal Story Three Centuries Of Exploration And Discovery

Download or read book The Portugal Story written by John Dos Passos and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2011-03-02 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.”