The Portugal Story: three centuries of exploration and discovery. / John Dos Passos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portugal--History--Period of discoveries, 1385-1580.

Portugal.

History.

Portugal--History--To 1385.

Physical Description:

viii pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 394 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969.

Contents:

How Portugal began

Heirs of the adventurers

The enterprise of the Indies

Peak of Empire

Portugal in America.

Notes:

With half-title.

"Copyright 1969 by John Dos Passos."

"Jacket by Rolf Bruderer."

Price from dust-jacket: $7.95.

Green cloth spine lettered and patterned in gilt with red cloth boards. Endpapers have green and white maps of "Southwest Europe during Portugal's formative years" and "The Portuguese World in the Sixteenth Century".

Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-384) and index.

OCLC:

4394