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Title: The Traveller's History of Portugal (The Traveller's History Series) by Ian C. Robertson ISBN: 1-56656-440-9 Publisher: Interlink Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2 (4 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: You can't call this a history!
Comment: This is not really a history but mainly lists of events a large number of them presented in an unusual way and with the wrong date. Names are often spelt wrong, some beyond recognition. Others are quite amusing in their changed form, like Manrique (Manique). We the readers deserve better, much better. If you want a concise history of Portugal good for the traveller, then you have the right book in Portugal a Companion History by Jose Hermano Saraiva. That one is good!

Rating: 1
Summary: Read it with caution
Comment: Read it with caution

This book contains a lot of information, some correct some incorrect, some useful some unlikely to interest the general reader. Do you really want to read a page-long list of Visigothic kings? Worse than this kind of information is the considerable number of errors,as a typical mistake, "The Luciades". This is supposed to be "The Lusiads" (see "The Lusiads", Oxford World's Classics, a five-star book). This traveller's history puts together a lot of material from different sources, but does so unselectively and without checking for accuracy. This is as bad as the Tyson-Ward Portuguese books!

Rating: 5
Summary: Never mind the fanatics
Comment: A basic comprehensive summary of Portugal's history. Nothing anti-Catholic about it. Today Fatima is indeed little more than Disneyland for religious zelots.

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