<DIV><DIV>Professor Saraiva</B>'s multi-volume History of Portugal is a celebrated<BR>scholarly standard work. Yet, when he published a one-volume Historia<BR>Concisa, it proved a run-away best seller in Portugal, and the television<BR>series that went with it became a chart-topper. His latest book, produced<BR>especially for Carcanet's Aspects of Portugal series, is a history of his<BR>country, brief, acute and illuminating, written with scholarly insight and<BR>with non-specialist foreign readers specifically in mind.<BR>    <BR>To this main text Ian Robertson, author of the well-known Blue<BR>Guide to Portugal, has added a historical gazeteer, brief biographies,<BR>chronological tables, maps and other elements which make this an essential<BR>Companion, the sort of book that a reader in need of accurate, brief and<BR>lucid reference will find useful, and every visitor to Portugal will find<BR>rewarding.<BR><BR>The book is generously illustrated.</DIV></DIV>