Queen Of The Sea: A History Of Lisbon
By: Barry Hatton
3.96
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Lisbon’s charm is legendary, but its vibrant 2,000-year history is not widely known, from its Roman…
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1. The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
By: Christopher Hibbert
3.88
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
At its height, Renaissance Florence was a center of enormous wealth, power, and influence. A republ… read more
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- history
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2. Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-45
By: Neill Lochery
3.63
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Lisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The onl… read more
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3. Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture
By: José Saramago , Nick Caistor , Amanda Hopkinson
3.43
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
When José Saramago decided to write a book about Portugal some twenty years ago, his only desire wa… read more
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"As povoações são como as pessoas, aproximamo-nos delas devagar, paulatinamente, não esta invasão súbita, a coberto da escuridão, como se fôssemos salteadores mascarados"-José Saramago, Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture
"«Il viaggio non finisce mai. Solo i viaggiatori finiscono. E anche loro possono prolungarsi in memoria, in ricordo, in narrazione. Quando il viaggiatore si è seduto sulla sabbia della spiaggia e ha d…"-José Saramago, Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture
"A viagem não acaba nunca. Só os viajantes acabam. E mesmo estes podem prolongar-se em memória, em lembrança, em narrativa. Quando o viajante se sentou na areia da praia e disse: «Não há mais que ver»…"-José Saramago, Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture
4. A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire, Volume 1: From Beginnings to 1807
By: None , Anthony R. Disney
4.12
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With n… read more
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- portugal
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5. The History of the Siege of Lisbon
By: José Saramago , Giovanni Pontiero
3.83
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
"If proofreaders were given their freedom and did not have their hands and feet tied by a mass of p… read more
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- portugal
"Não vim de tão longe para morrer diante dos muros de Lisboa"-José Saramago, The History of the Siege of Lisbon
"As palavras, senhor, estão por aí, no ar, qualquer as pode aprender."-José Saramago, The History of the Siege of Lisbon
"Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting hims…"-José Saramago, The History of the Siege of Lisbon
"Certaines relations harmonieuses se créent et durent grâce à un système complexe de menues contre-vérités, de renoncements, une espèce de ballet complice d'attitudes et de postures qui peut se résume…"-José Saramago, The History of the Siege of Lisbon
6. A Concise History of Portugal
By: David Birmingham
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
This concise, illustrated history of Portugal offers an introduction to the people and culture of t… read more
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7. The Italians
By: John Hooper
4.19
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Washington Post bestseller Los Angeles Times bestseller A vivid and surprising portrait of the Ital… read more
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8. Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
By: Russell Shorto
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by t… read more
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9. The Last Day: Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
By: Nicholas Shrady
3.63
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
A riveting history of how the cataclysmic Lisbon earthquake shook the religious and intellectual fo… read more
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- portugal
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10. The Little Drummer Girl
By: John Le Carré
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more
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11. The Innocents Abroad
By: Mark Twain
4.23
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about E… read more
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12. Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
By: Roger Crowley
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration i… read more
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13. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
14. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
By: Camilla Townsend
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
15. Queen Of The Sea: A History Of Lisbon
By: Barry Hatton
3.96
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Lisbon’s charm is legendary, but its vibrant 2,000-year history is not widely known, from its Roman… read more
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- history
- travel
- portugal
- nonfiction
- european history
- cities
16. Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize
By: Margo Rabb
3.73
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Lucy Clark has had it. After being bullied one too many times at the boarding school her parents en… read more
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"I'm not something you fix like a broken plate or revise like a term paper. I'm a person. You love a person by accepting who they are, not constantly fixing them or trying to shape or change or teach …"-Margo Rabb, Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize
"They didn't believe me," I told Jack. "What kind of evidence do you and the police need? The killer to stick a knife in someone's neck in front of you and say, I'm committing murder right now-please …"-Margo Rabb, Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize
17. Samotność Portugalczyka
By: Iza Klementowska
3.72
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Kto rządził w domu António de Oliveiry Salazara, dlaczego João Soares został tylko w piżamie, co sł… read more
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18. Messi vs. Ronaldo: One Rivalry, Two GOATs, and the Era That Remade the World's Game
By: Joshua Robinson
4.21
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Essential World Cup Reading Featured in The New York Times' 'What to Read During the World Cup' … read more
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- history
19. A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice
By: Paul Caruana Galizia
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A journalist’s account of the murder of his muckraking mother and a quest for justice that has reve… read more
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- history
20. This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason
By: Mark Molesky
3.78
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book AwardA Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist Th… read more
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21. Lizbona. Muzyka moich ulic
By: Marcin Kydryński
3.68
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
"Ta książka powstała nie tylko z mojej miłości do jednego z najpiękniejszych miast świata i jego pr… read more
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