Professor Saraiva’s multi-volume History of Portugal is a celebrated scholarly standard work. Yet, when he published a one-volume História Concisa, it proved a run-away best seller in Portugal, and the television series that went with it became a chart-topper.
His latest book, Portugal – A Companion History, is a history of his country, brief, acute and illuminating, written with scholarly insight and with non-specialist foreign readers specifically in mind.
Companion, the sort of book that a reader in need of accurate, brief and lucid reference will find useful, and every visitor to Portugal will find rewarding.
The book is generously illustrated.

ISBN: 1-85754-211-8
Paperback – 222 Pag.