In a message dated 7/22/2009 12:37:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > All, > > Does anyone have a good book on the history of the Azores that they could > recommend? I haven't been able to find anything on Amazon that looks like > it would be worth purchasing. Also, has anyone read Saudades da Terra, and > if so was it good and is there an English translation? > > Thanks, > > Ben I've read Saudades da Terra; it is value is not literary but historical and genealogical. There was an English translation of Volume IV, Book 1, by Edna Phillips Kerns; I do not know if it is still available. The translation might be considered amaturish or worse by some, but it is the only English translation ever made available and is invaluable to people searching for S. Miguel ancestors. The best history of the Azores in English is still the book by the late james Guill. (Guill, James H. A History of the Azores. Golden Shield International, Tulare: 1993.)
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