Jose Mourinho: Made in Portugal - the Authorised Biography |
Luis Lourenco, Jose Mourinho ISBN: 0954684338 Jose Mourinho arrived in London in the summer of 2004. Since then the Chelsea manager has had a significant, and often controversial, impact on English football, with his unmistakeable self-confidence, drive and ambition. This fascinating book charts...(read more) |
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Journey to Portugal |
Jose Saramago ISBN: 1860468721 Crossing his native land from northeast to southwest, the great novelist explores the villages and towns of Portugal and discovers what it is that binds him to his country and his people. Climbing into his aged motor, Jose Saramago's trip across...(read more) |
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Musa Book |
Paulo Lima, Raquel Viana, Ricardo Alexandre ISBN: 9889809702 Fulfilment of a Dream - And Birth of an Identity? It all started one summer afternoon in 2003. There is a dream, an idea, a huge will to do something - to do something for Portugal designs sake. Merely two years later, part of the dream come true, a...(read more) |
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Prince Henry "The Navigator": A Life |
P.E. Russell ISBN: 0300091303 Yale Nota Bene. This enthralling life of the legendary fifteenth-century Portuguese prince, Henry the Navigator, is the first comprehensive biography in more than a century. Examining the full range of the prince's activities as an imperialist and as a...(read more) |
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The Letters of Private Wheeler, 1809-28 |
William Wheeler ISBN: 0900075589 These are the letters - in the form of a frank and amusing diary - written by a private in Wellington's army who fought throughout the Napoleonic wars and it includes a colourful eye-witness account of the Battle of Waterloo. Private Wheeler's record...(read more) |
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The Recollections of Rifleman Harris |
Christopher Hibbert ISBN: 0304367370 Military Memoirs. Benjamin Harris was a young shepherd from Dorset who joined the army in 1802 and later joined the dashing 95th Rifles. His battalion was ordered to Portugal, where he marched away under the burning sun, weighed down by his kit and...(read more) |
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The Ships of Christopher Columbus: "Santa Maria", "Nina" and "Pinta" |
Xavier Pastor ISBN: 1844860140 1992 marked the 500th anniversary of the European discovery of the Americas by Christopher Columbus. The details of Columbus's ships - the Santa Maria, Nina and Pinta - remain lost to historians, for the ships were built before the first manuals of...(read more) |
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