Backwards out of the big world  -  Hyland, Paul

a voyage into Portugal

KORTE INHOUD

The Portuguese acquired a huge empire and almost unimaginable grandeur earlier than the British, and they hung on to their colonies until later. Since the death of the dictator Salazar, the country has ridden the switchback of radicalism and reaction. Paul Hyland arrived in Lisbon in a cargo boat. Two centuries earlier, the novelist Henry Fielding voyaged to what he called "the nastiest city in the world" to die. The city he saw was largely demolished by an earthquake the following year. Fielding's "Voyage ...
1996 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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1996 Uitgever: Harper & Collins 269 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0002555565 ISBN-13: 9780002555562