The Portugal Story - Three Centuries of Exploration and Discovery

Informationen zum Autor 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 write  Three Soldiers  in 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. Klappentext 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." Zusammenfassung 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.”

Product details

• Authors: John Dos Passos, John Roderigo Dos Passos
• Publisher: Doubleday Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1995
• EAN: 9780385513630
• ISBN: 978-0-385-51363-0
• No. of pages: 424
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Portugal, European History, Spain, Second World War, Biography: religious & spiritual, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 (Spanish Civil War period), HISTORY / Europe / Spain