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1) Several years ago in Storytelling Magazine, a Portuguese version of "Cinderella" was published. It is called "Hearth Cat."
2) Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale titled "The Portuguese Duck."
http://hca.gilead.org.il/por_duck.html
3) The Portuguese version of "Tia Miseria and her Pear Tree," rewritten by Harlynne Geisler in the book More Ready-To-Tell Tales from Around the World
When David Holt and Bill Mooney collaborated on their original Ready-to-Tell Tales, they knew they had a tiger by the tail a how-to book for all those who have watched a master storyteller and wondered, How do they do that? School Library Journal recognized it as an extraordinary collection...it deserves a place on the shelf beside other storytelling classics. It was highly recommended by Booklist and won a truckload of awards and citations.
4) The little horse of seven colors,: And other Portuguese folk tales
5) Portuguese Fairy Tales
6) Folk Tales of All the Nations, edited by F. H. Lee. New York (1930). 947 pages with original sources listed. There are 8 stories listed under Portugal. Contains original version of "The Serpent Woman," which was rewritten in Ask the Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World.
The stories are:
"The seven iron slippers"
"The spider"
"The hind of the Golden Apple"
"The Padre and the Negro"
"The story of a cat's tail"
"The merry little fox"
"The white rabbit"
"The oil merchant's donkey"
7) "The Geese and the Golden Chain" from Manning-Sanders, A Book of Mermaids
8) "The Remarkable Woman" (on page 99) from Folk tales from Portugal
9) Portuguese Folk-Tales
10) A Primary Reader (Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children) - Webster's Portuguese Thesaurus Edition
This is a special edition which exposes readers to a variety of English phrases and terminology from this genre. While the text is in English, the "click and translate" thesaurus, in Portuguese, is a perfect tool for Portuguese speakers who need to enjoy this English-language classic, and also learn English words. If you are a non-English speaker, you can use this version to help you improve your vocabulary in preparation of English-language tests. While designed for Portuguese speakers wishing to learn English, English-speakers wanting to pick up Portuguese vocabulary may also find the Portuguese thesaurus feature of interest (the text is entirely in English, only the pop-up thesaurus is in Portuguese).
11) Fox Fables - Portuguese (Fables from Around the World)
12) Anthology of Catalan Folktales (Catalan Studies : Translations and Criticism, Vol 16)
13) Discovery in the Archives of Spain and Portugal: Quincentenary Essays, 1492-1992
The quincentenary celebration of the voyage of Christopher Columbus to America sparked popular controversy and political debate over the true nature of the voyage as discovery or conquest. Discovery in the Archives of Spain and Portugal refocuses the debate, serving as a reminder that historical reinterpretation calls for reexamination of evidence rather than merely the expression of personal opinion. A lively and interesting overview of Iberian and related archives, the book examines archives and primary documentary sources in the early-modern era from Spain and Portugal.
Surveys sources, source criticism, and controversies surrounding Christopher Columbus and revisionism in interpreting the “discovery of America” as an encounter between two worlds. Authors discuss the origin of archives and historical documentation and pose questions and themes for further research provide survey information and practicalguidance for potential research in Spanish and Portuguese archives give an overview of gathering, editing, analyzing, and interpreting primary sources share anecdotal experiences of research in the archives of Spain and Portugal relate narratives and documentary sources for Columbus's affair with those in the larger arena of European expansionism.
14) Iberia
Here, in the fresh, vivid prose that is James Michener's trademark, is the real Spain as he experiences it. He not only reveals the celebrated Spain of bullfights and warror kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards; he also shares the intimate, often hidden Spain he has come to know, where toiling peasants and their honest food, the salt of the shores and the oranges of the inland fields, the congeniality of living souls and the dark weight of history conspire to create a wild, contradictory, passionately beautiful land, the mystery called Iberia.
15) Food of Portugal
Portugal, as much as Portuguese cooking, is the subject of this book, which is enlivened by veteran food writer (coauthor of The NEW Doubleday Cookbook Anderson's familiarity with the country's people, regions, rivers and markets. A lengthy glossary in the introductory section notwithstanding, the narrative is buoyed by historical notes, reminiscences and tips on the best inns and restaurants in Portugal. When Portuguese is used in the recipes, the English translation is also included, thereby precluding the necessity of making frequent reference to the glossary, a mild annoyance with many ethnic cookbooks. The recipes depend on simple ingredients, often in unusual combinations ("pork and clams may sound like a new low in surf 'n' turf dinners, but it is in fact a Portuguese classic"), subtly seasoned with olive oil, bay, tomatoes, garlic and the spices of the East introduced to Portugal by explorer Vasco da Gama at the turn of the 16th century. Meat, fish and chicken, often marinated, and soups are emphasized. In the interests of health and ingredient availability, some traditional Portuguese dishesmany egg sweets and lampreys, or fat eel, delicacieshave been omitted
An extensive bilingual glossary explains, defines, and describes
Portuguese food, wine, cooking, and restaurant terms.
With notes for cooks and travelers on the language
of Portuguese wine, food, and dining.
Wine notes have been completely revised and updated.
Color photographs of Portugal by the author.
16) The Portuguese Empire, 1415-1808: A World on the Move
"[Russell-Wood] enumerates Portuguese contributions to other peoples' pasts and presents, especially in the contexts of the 'ebb and flow of commodities,' the 'dissemination of flora and fauna' and the 'transmission of styles, theories and ideas.' The original feature is the author's concentration on people and transport as vectors of cultural exchange... He evokes a lively picture of the highly mobile merchants, missionaries and administrators who hurried back and forth across oceans and continents to keep the enterprise going." -- Times Literary Supplement
This is the story of the first and one of the greatest colonial empires: its birth, apotheosis, and decline. By approaching the history of the Portuguese empire thematically, A. J. R. Russell-Wood is able to pursue ideas and make connections that previously have been constrained by strict chronological approaches. Using the study of movement as a focus, Russell-Wood gains unique insight into the diversity, breadth, and balance between the competing interests and priorities that characterized the Portuguese culture and its expansion spanning four centuries' events on four different continents.
17) São Tome: Journey to the Abyss--Portugal's Stolen Children
In 1485 the Portuguese Crown and Catholic Church began to kidnap Jewish children, forcibly convert the young conscripts, and ship them to Sao Tome Island off the African equator to work the government sugar plantations. The collision of slavery, sugar agriculture, and discovery of The Americas transformed this island colony into the nidus of the wholesale black slave trade that infected Africa and Western commerce for the next 350 years. Sao Tome reveals the Medieval Churchs complicity in the business of human bondage.
This little-known chapter of the Diaspora tells the story of young Marcel Saulo and his sister Leah abducted with other children from their synagogue in Lisbon and shipped by caravel 4,000 miles to the West-African island where they bear witness to the holocaust of African slavery. This is a historical novel that chronicles one mans courageous struggle against religious and racial persecution, torture, and disease, and explores the abyss of Inquisition, Portuguese and Spanish world expansion, and the blight of slavery fueled by the calamitous growth of sugar commerce.
18) The Lusiads (Oxford World's Classics)
1998 is the quincentenary of Vasca da Gama's voyage via southern Africa to India, the voyage celebrated in this new translation of one of the greatest poems of the Renaissance. Portugal's supreme poet Camoes was the first major European artist to cross the equator. The freshness of that original encounter with Africa and India is the very essence of Camoes's vision. The first translation of The Lusiads for almost half a century, this new edition is complemented by an illuminating introduction and extensive notes.
19) A Pilgrim's Guide to the Camino Portugues: The Portuguese Way of St. James Porto to Santiago de Compostela
Including practical advice and a list of accommodations for each day’s stage, this guide covers the increasingly popular Portugese Route.
20) The Book of Sent Sovia: Medieval recipes from Catalonia (Textos B) (Textos B)
The Book of Sent Sovi, composed around the middle of the fourteenth century, is the oldest surviving culinary text in Catalan. It is anonymous and, like the majority of medieval cookery books, is the product of a complex process of transmission, with multiple manuscript copies and readers who have left their mark on it. The contents are eminently practical. Successive cooks have recorded their own methods of preparing the dishes and recipes included, blending several culinary traditions in a single work. This is also a reliable source of information on the cookery of the territories of the Crown of Aragon before the revolution caused by the arrival of products from the Americas. This edition includes both an English translation, by Robin Vogelzang, and the original Catalan version. It has been the editor's aim to clarify the difficult passages in the book - sometimes corrupted because of the complex manuscript tradition - so that it can be understood as easily as possible by its twenty-first-century readers. Published in association with Editorial Barcino.
21) Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700 (Europe and the World in the Age of Expansion, vol. III)
22) Sabores De Portugal / Flavors of Portugal
Review by a reader
The author gathered Portuguese recipes from family and friends for her Flavors of Portugal, so the book holds many surprises you won't discover in competing Portuguese cookbooks. Color photos pack a survey that also includes both cultural notes and insights on recipe origins and oddities. Dishes such as Traditional Oven-Roasted Sardines and Shrimp Rissoles make the most of seafood, so access to a good fresh seafood market is essential. Readers with such access will find this a very inviting guide to not just the cuisine of Portugal, but its culture.
23) Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a 17th Century Forbidden Love
In 1669, a Parisian bookseller published a slim volume called Portuguese Letters, which unveiled a love affair between a young Portuguese nun and a French officer that had occurred a few years earlier during a war-torn period in Portugal. The book contained passionate love letters from the nun when the officer was forced to return to France.
The letters took Paris by storm. They spoke of love in a manner so direct, so precise, and so raw, they sent shivers of recognition through the sophisticated stratums of polite society. Equally remarkable was the mystery that surrounds the letters: the author was unknown, and most people assumed they were the fictional product of a French aristocrat. Now, Myriam Cyr persuasively makes the case that the nun, Mariana Alcoforado, did indeed write the letters, and her story is one of the most moving in the history of forbidden love.
24) A Nation upon the Ocean Sea: Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640
With the opening of sea routes in the fifteenth century, groups of men and women left Portugal to establish themselves across the ports and cities of the Atlantic or Ocean Sea. They were refugees and migrants, traders and mariners, Jews, Catholics, and the Marranos of mixed Judaic-Catholic culture. They formed a diasporic community known by contemporaries as the Portuguese Nation. By the early seventeenth century, this nation without a state had created a remarkable trading network that spanned the Atlantic, reached into the Indian Ocean and Asia, and generated millions of pesos that were used to bankroll the Spanish empire. A Nation Upon The Ocean Sea traces the story of the Portuguese Nation from its emergence in the late fifteenth century to its fragmentation in the middle of the seventeenth and situates it in relation to the parallel expansion and crisis of Spanish imperial dominion in the Atlantic. Against the backdrop of this relationship, the book reconstitutes the rich inner life of a community based on movement, maritime trade, and cultural hybridity. We are introduced to mariners and traders in such disparate places as Lima, Seville and Amsterdam, their day-to-day interactions and understandings, their houses and domestic relations, their private reflections and public arguments.
25) Poems of Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa is Portugal's most important contemporary poet. He wrote under several identities, which he called heteronyms: Albet Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, and Bernardo Soares. He wrote fine poetry under his own name as well, and each of his "voices" is completely different in subject, temperament, and style. This volume brings back into print the comprehensive collection of his work published by Ecco Press in 1986.
26) A Long and Uncertain Journey: The 27,000 Mile Voyage of Vasco Da Gama (Great Explorers)
Five years after Columbus sailed off to find a sea route to the Orient, the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama went on the same quest. His epic, 27,000 mile journey around the bottom of Africa was filled with danger, treachery, sacrifice, cruelty and acts of extraordinary courage. By the time da Gama returned, half his ships were gone, and two thirds of his crew were dead, but he had found what Columbus had not.
Da Gama brought back tales of East African and Asian marketplaces overflowing with riches, of rulers who wore emeralds and rubies and pearls the size of grapes, of ships and cannons that were no match for those of the Portuguese. Portugal would soon send more ships and more cannons. The rest of Europe would follow. And the world would never be the same.
Joan Elizabeth Goodman's narrative captures both the drama of da Gama's voyage and its central place in world history. Tom McNeely's fluid watercolors give the reader a visceral sense of an unknown world unfolding before the explorer's eyes.
27) Vasco Da Gama And The Sea Route To India (Explorers of New Lands)
A Portuguese navigator whose initial voyage to India opened up the sea route from Western Europe to the East by way of the Cape of Good Hope.
28) The Travels of Vasco Da Gama (Explorers and Exploration)
29) Henry the Navigator: Prince of Portuguese Exploration (In the Footsteps of Explorers)
This title is intended for ages 8-14. Read about the man who started it all in this exciting new book that traces the beginnings of the European Age of Exploration through the sponsorship of voyages by Prince Henry of Portugal. Trace the adventures of his sailors as they voyaged down the West Coast of Africa in the 1400s, laying the foundations for a Portuguese colonial empire.
30) Vasco Da Gama: And the Portuguese Explorere (Explorers of the New World)
Biographies of some of the most important explorers the world has known -- Ideal for research or class use -- Written in accessible, easily understood language -- Complements school curriculum The story of the Portuguese explorers who sailed the coastline of Africa in their quest to develop trade routes to Asia.
31) Vasco Da Gama: So Strong a Spirit (Great Explorations)
These books achieve varying degrees of success. Each title begins with the subject's early life and the circumstances that led to his explorations. The authors do not shy away from discussing the sometimes ruthless greed of these men and their brutality toward indigenous peoples (although Balboa was known for treating Natives with respect). Pizarro at times strays away from biography and becomes more of a political discussion, which is sometimes difficult to follow. Also, many words are undefined. Balboa and Da Gama are more straightforward. Each title has numerous color illustrations and a time line.
32) Vasco Da Gama (Explorers Set 1)
33) I found this book of Portuguese folktales at google books. There are stories of princes and princesses.
http://tinyurl.com/d349d7
Karen C. 2/2/09
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