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Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition...
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two
A Times History Book of the Year 2022A TLS Book of the Year 2022'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical...
Pereira Maintains: A Testimony
The much-loved masterpiece from one of the key figures of twentieth-century Italian literature In the sweltering summer of 1938, with Lisbon in the grip of Portugal's dictatorship of Ant nio...