Portugal Unveiled: Six Captivating Reads
History, Folklore, Language, and Maritime Discovery in Portuguese CultureBy Walter Crum Watson, Francisco Adolfo Coelho, C. Raymond Beazley, Edith A. Sawyer, Martin A. S. Hume, Agnes M. Goodall
Length37h 26m
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Portugal Unveiled: Six Captivating Reads gathers six distinct approaches to the Portuguese past, landscape, and national imagination. Moving between historical inquiry, cultural observation, travel-inflected description, and literary interpretation, the volume presents Portugal not as a static picturesque margin of Europe but as a formative Atlantic and Iberian culture. Its selections range across questions of exploration, monarchy, language, custom, and place, with especially vivid attention to the encounters between local tradition and wider imperial or European histories. The contributors—Walter Crum Watson, Francisco Adolfo Coelho, C. Raymond Beazley, Edith A. Sawyer, Martin A. S. Hume, and Agnes M. Goodall—bring together scholarly, antiquarian, and literary sensibilities shaped by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century interests in national history, folklore, philology, and discovery. Their differing viewpoints illuminate the period's evolving study of Iberia while preserving a rich record of how Portugal was interpreted both within and beyond its borders. This collection is recommended to students of Portuguese and Iberian studies, travel writing, and cultural history, as well as to general readers seeking an accessible intellectual journey. Read together, these works invite comparison, critical reflection, and a fuller appreciation of Portugal's many historical and imaginative forms.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length37 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Jose: Our Little Portuguese Cousin
2Jose: Our Little Portuguese Cousin
3Preface
4CHAPTER V THE HUSKING OF THE MAIZE
5CHAPTER X BETTER TIMES
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6Tales of Lusitania from The Folklore of Portugal
7ST. ANTONY'S GODDAUGHTER.
8THE PREDICTION.
9THE THREE STUDENTS AND THE SOLDIER.
10THE POOR AND THE RICH GODFATHER.
11THE DAUGHTERS OF THE TWO COUNSELLORS.
12THE ENCHANTED MOORISH PRINCESS.
13THE ECHO.
14THE PADRE AND THE NEGRO.
15THE COUNT OF PARIS.
16THE PORTRAIT OF THEBEAUTIFUL PRINCESS.
17GRAIN-O'-MAIZE.
18THE PRINCE WHO HAD ASS'S EARS.
19THE TOWER OF BABYLON.
20THE STORY OF THE WHITE LAMB.
21THE CHILD AND THE FIG.
22THE MAGIC SLIPPERS.
23THE MAGICIAN’S SERVANT.
24THE BROKEN EGG.
25THE LITTLE BOY AND THE MOON.
26THE WHITE RABBIT.
27THE NOBLEMAN AND THE GREEN BLINDS.
28THE BIG-BELLIED CHICK.
29THE MONKEY'S POMEGRANATE TREE.
30THE PRINCE A TOAD.
31MARIA SILVA.
32THE GREAT HERO.
33Portuguese Architecture
34PREFACE
35INTRODUCTION
36CHAPTER I
37CHAPTER III
38CHAPTER IV
39CHAPTER V
40CHAPTER VII
41CHAPTER VIII
42CHAPTER XI
43CHAPTER XIII
44CHAPTER XIV
45CHAPTER XVI
46CHAPTER XVII
47CHAPTER XVIII
48BOOKS CONSULTED
49Footnote
50Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D
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