(P/B) JOURNEY TO PORTUGAL

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From the misty mountains of the north to the southern seascape of the Algarve, the travels of Nobel laureate Jose Saramago are a passionate rediscovery of his own land.
Setting off in his veteran motor car, Saramago wants to travel to Portugal, as well as through it: by making it his destination the acclaimed writer hopes to take stock of his native land as it hovers on the edge of the modern world. He is no typical guide -he avoids the "sights" in favour of a remote Romanesque church, a cobweb-ridden chapel, the local and the domestic- but, with his deep fount of memory and erudite knowledge, each encounter evoking the span of Portugal's history, he is anyone's idea of a delightful travelling companion. (From the publisher)

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List of Illustrations
Author's Preface to the English Edition
FROM NORTHEAST TO NORTHWEST: THE DOURO AND THE DUERO
The Sermon of the Fishes
The Wicked Ways of Dossel
The Fiery Waters of the River de Onor
The Story of the Soldier Jose Jorge
The Devil's Temptations
The Stately Home
The Tame Wolf's Cave
Passionate Animals
Where Camilo is Not
Sleeping Beauty's Castle
Of Headaches and Other Miracles
An Even Bigger House
The Girls of Castro Laboreiro
St George Sets Forth on Horseback
Food for the Body
Mount Everest of Lanhoso
"Beside the River They Call the Douro"
LOWLANDS BESIDE THE OCEAN
Endless Waters
At Home with the Marquess of Marialva
Not Every Ruin is a Roman Ruin
Coimbra Climbs, Coimbra Falls
A Castle Fit for Hamlet
At the Mountains' Gateway
SOFT-STONE BEIRAS, BE PATIENT
The Man Who Could Not Forget
Bread, Cheese and Wine in Cidadelhe
How Malva Got its Name
A Grain of Corn Away from Being Lisbon
New Temptations of the Devil
King of Cards
Highs and Lows
The Town of Stone
The Ghost of Jose Junior
"Hic Est Chorus"
FROM MONDEGO TO SADO, STOPPING ALL THE WHILE
One Islands, Two Islands
Arts of Water and Fire
Friars, Warriors and Fishermen
The Oldest House
So Near and Yet so Far
Captain Bonina
The Name in the Map
There Was Once a Slave
Paradise Encountered
At the Gates of Lisbon
They Say It's a Good Thing
Chimneys and Orange Groves
THE VAST AND BURNING LANDS OF ALENTEJO
Where the Eagles Rest
A Rose Flower
One Ancient Stone, One Man
The Destruction of Nests is Prohibited
The Night the World Began
Looking and Leaping
The Italians in Mertola
OF THE ALGARVE, SUN, DRY BREAD AND SOFT BREAD
The Director and his Museum
Portuguese as She is Not Spoken
The Traveller Sets Out Again
Index