The First Global Village: How Portugal
Changed The World
Portugal is Europe's southwestern extremity, washed by the Atlantic, and warmed by the Mediterranean sun. Alone
among Iberia's ancient kingdoms, in it's independence from Spain, it is a nation about half the size of Florida, with
two -thirds the population. Yet over centuries, it has influenced the lives of the rest of us far more than many much
larger and more powerful countries. The Portuguese gave the English afternoon tea, and Bombay, the key to
empire. They brought to Africa protection from malaria, and slave-shipments to America; to India, higher education,
curry and samosas; to Japan, tempura and firearms.
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Author
Martin Page
Published
2007 by Casa das Letras (first published February 2002)
Number Of Pages
277 pages
Original Title
The First Global Village: How Portugal Changed the World
ISBN
9724613135 (ISBN13: 9789724613130 )
Edition Language
English
Setting
Portugal
About Martin Page
There is more than one author with this name
French author: Martin Page
Botanist: Martin Page
MARTIN PAGE was one of the leading correspondents of the Daily Express when the Beaverbrook foreign service
was among the most lavishly funded in Fleet Street. He was head of the Express bureaux in three world capitals —
Paris, Moscow and Rome — and he reported wars from Algeria and Congo to Vietnam. Then his declining eyesight
was diagnosed as untreatable and, faced with the prospect of the end of his travelling life, he started a new career
as an author.
His novel, The Man Who Stole The Mona Lisa, was an instant success and hailed by The Times as one of the best
two thrillers of its year. He also wrote The Good Doctors Guide, an assessment of the skills of various consultants
that caused considerable controversy in Harley Street and beyond. But soon he became legally blind and moved
with his wife and two small sons to live in Portugal.
This country provided the subject of his most important book, The First Global Village, in which he described the
influence of Portugal over the centuries. This highly readable work was well-received in Britain and Portugal and
this account by an English author of their country made it a bestseller with the Portuguese.
His books were published in 14 languages and included The Company Savage, which became a bestseller in
Germany and Japan, and a second novel, The Pilate Plot. [Times obit.]
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