The Selective Traveller in Portugal

Language: English

Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1962

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The Selective Traveller in Portugal by Ann Bridge and Susan Lowndes (London: Chatto & Windus, 1963). Hardcover, 291 pp. Book Near Fine overall: blue boards with gilt lettering to spine; tight binding; pages bright and clean with only minor shelfwear to boards. no dust jacket present. Provenance/Ephemera: tasteful bookshop label on front endpaper from Tabagaria do Parque, Cascais (Arcadas do Parque, Estoril); festival flyer laid in from Tomar, 1985 — Festival de Folclore da Região dos Templários (Junho 22). A curated, literate guide to mid-century Portugal including town by town recommendations, art/architecture notes, hotels and dining of the era, and cultural background written for discerning travellers. Ann Bridge was a British novelist and travel writer known for elegant, observant prose, and Susan Lowndes (later Lowndes Marques) was a Lisbon-based journalist and long-time Portugal hand; together they produced one of the more refined Anglophone guides to Portugal of the 1960s.

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Title
The Selective Traveller in Portugal
Author
Ann Bridge and Susan Lowndes
Publisher
Chatto & Windus, London
Publication year
1962
Condition
Very good
Dust jacket
No Jacket
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
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Geography, Non-Fiction

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