RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 56

April 2007
 

PART XXVI:

Sporting Books, Sport, Hunting

 
See also items 91 & 123.

364. DIAS, Marina Tavares, Helena Xavier, and João Miguel Henriques. Cascais: aqui nasceu o futebol em Portugal, 1888 / 1928. "Apresentação" by António d'Orey Capucho. Cascais: Câmara Municipal, and Lisbon: Quimera, 2004. Folio (30.9 x 23.9 cm.), publ. blind-stamped bds. with d.j. 159 pp., profusely and nicely illus. (about half in color), bibliography. ISBN: 972-637-124-4 (CMC); 972-589-126-0 (Quimera). $70.00

 
365. FERREIRA, Diogo Fernandes. Arte da caça de altaneria. Apresentação de Natália Correia Guedes. Carlos Crespo, illus. Lisbon: Horizonte, 2006. Lge. 8°, publ. illus. bds. 168 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-24-1491-7. $50.00

Classic work on falconry, and the only early one on this subject published in Portuguese. It originally appeared in 1616, and was published again in 1899.

 
366. SANTOS, Rui. Estádio de choque. Lisbon: A Esfera dos Livros, 2007. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 239 pp. ISBN: 989-626-051-4. $40.00

Essays on the recent and current state of Portuguese futebol (i.e.soccer), including chapters on the "Caso Mateus", "Corrupção", "A política de futebol", "Deus Scolari, "Os interiores do Benfica", "Sporting e FC Porto", "O efeito Abramovich", and more.