Afoot in Portugal
| dc.contributor.author | Gibbons, John | |
| dc.contributor.editor | George Newnes | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2/29/24 7:46 | |
| dc.date.available | 2/29/24 7:46 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1933 | |
| dc.description | OBRAS DO AUTOR - "London to Sarajevo"; - "A foot in Italy"; - "Tramping through Ireland"; - "Twenty-four vagabond tales"; - "Fun and Philosophy". | |
| dc.description.author | O AUTOR Gibbons considera ser um viajante de excepção e reflecte sobre a sua condição profissional: "In a way, of course, I take it that I must be one of the luckiest men in London. For to few Londoners is it given for forty-six years vainly to hunger for foreign parts and never get any further than Boulogne, and then in actual months to turn into a professional voyager, jogging gaily half over a mysterious and delicious unknown Europe. Equally of course, however, the business has its little deawbacks, this condition of a perpetual third-class, for instance, being liable at times to develop a certain weariness of the flesh. Such a time might conceivably arise with an allright journey on the wooden seats from far-off Dieppe and round the coast-line route of the Etat Railway, and with no breakfast at Bordeaux and with the connection of the long Midi train uncomfortably packed in the third-class corridors even for standing room". ............................................................................................................................................... pp. 5-6 "Capitals of course are the bugbears of my sort of traveller, because while in village you are at least a rare bird and an object of curiosity, you become in the city something of a pariah". .................... p. 137 REFLEXÕES "Now it seems to me that if you write a book there is, despite the critics, the chance always present that somebody may read it. And that therefore it may be a little awkward to wander through villages ever at the back-of-beyond giving each place its real name and then making fun of them all. And I do not then propose to do it". ......................................................................................................................... p. 65 "... I did make a little tour of my own invention which I have never seem recorded in any of the usual books of English travel [...] From a very early age indeed I have always wondered what travellers did with their evenings. For pratically all the English travel books that I have ever read deal exhaustively with ancient castles and cathedrals and with next to nothing else. When the castle or the cathedral is closed at dusk, the regular traveller apparently goes to bed to recuperate for next day's castle; at least, you never seem to read of him amusing himself. Now I on the other hand as an irregular traveller did at least try amuse myself with a Lisbon evening". ............................................................................... p. 140 "How on earth, someone may say, can this man if genuinely he can speak no word of Portuguese, and if genuinely the country is a bit on the primitive side, ever manage to get through at all? And genuinely I could, and still can, speak no Portuguese, and genuinely the country "is" a bit on the primitive side. Only really, of course, that makes it all the easier. Because while in the sophisticated town you're a little of a nuissance, and nobody has much time to try and understand you; in the really remote village you're an object of rare curiosity whom everybody is anxious to meet". ........................................ p. 108 | |
| dc.description.informations | PREFÁCIO * pp. 1-4 A obra tem um prefácio de G. K. Chesterton. Chesterton elogia John Gibbons e a sua obra. Compara-a com outros relatos de viagens que não apresentam credibilidade. Excertos: "Mr. John Gibbon's book contains the remark that real things are rarely represented in books; and this is a paradox which I applaud; for it is after all the principal reason, excuse or desperate defence of writing a new book at all. In the majority of travel books, we are somehow much more conscious of the books than of the travels. Even at the best the books are rather bookish; and in many cases they are obviously only books about books, or even books about books about books". ................................... p. 1 "Now when I open this book, I find that the traveller mentions, literally in passing, that he saw rows and rows of entirely new Portuguese houses, bright with a new framework and fashion in building, with great palm-leaves stuck in all the windows, to show that the inhabitants had all been observing Palm Sunday. Now when Mr. John Gibbons tells me he saw that, I am sure he did see it. It is not a thing any man would make up out of any tradition of literature, old or new. It belongs to a class of new or neglected realities...". .......................................................................................................................... p. 34 "It is for those glimpses of the real complexities of history and of modern society, as distinct from the solemn simplifications of the rhetoricians, that books of travel are really valuable. And though I suspect that Mr. John Gibbons has somewhat the same sympathies as myself in the matter, I am really interested to hear of the new houses as well as of the historic plams". .............................................................. p. 4 DIVISÃO DA OBRA Prefácio ............................................................................................................................................. p. 1 Cap. 1 ................................................................................................................................................ p. 5 Cap. 2 ................................................................................................................................................ p. 27 Cap. 3 ................................................................................................................................................ p. 46 Cap. 4 ................................................................................................................................................ p. 65 Cap. 5 ................................................................................................................................................ p. 83 Cap. 6 ................................................................................................................................................ p. 108 Cap. 7 ................................................................................................................................................ p. 133 Cap. 8 ................................................................................................................................................ p. 156 Cap. 9 ................................................................................................................................................ p. 174 Cap. 10 .............................................................................................................................................. p. 191 INÍCIO DA VIAGEM - Entre Dax e Bayonne - John Gibbons inicia aqui a sua viagem. "How other travel writers may manage the always difficult question of their beginnings I do not know, but my own work on Southern Portugal will make the most natural start in the world at a point somewhere between Dax and Bayonne in France. Partly because I had never before been South of the junction where the English excursions turn off for Lourdes and partly because it was about there that I began to realise the responsabilities of travel in the form of extreme hungriness". ............................. p. 5 FIM DA VIAGEM "As running the fifty miles towards Pau I craned my head out of the carriage window to glimpse the Pyrenees, I was conscious of a sense of enormous depression. It is all very well to say that I couldn't help failing at the crossing, and that against my own will I had been turned back. But the point was that I had failed. I shall see, I hope and pray, those mountains again, for Lourdes after all can be reached from London for the few pounds' fare that sometimes I have. But Spain, that is different. For I am nearly fifty and a failure, and I have never had any real money, and now I know that I never shall. And no one will ever again pay me to try the crossing from the Spanish side, and of myself never shall I have the money to do it alone". .......................................................................................................................... pp. 206-207 OBJECTIVOS DA VIAGEM Chegado a Sevilha, Gibbons refere os objectivos da viagem. "Now a proper traveller, when he has never been in Spain before and has always wanted to go, and when at last he somehow finds himself in Seville, might presumably be expected to get out and at least take a look at the place. Only I didn't. It was Portugal that I was really bound for, you see, and after all one great city is extremely like another. And when you've come straight through the Peninsula with hardly a stop, an extra three hours or so seems scarcely worth worrying about. And so finding that there was a connecting train in about half an hour for Huelva, which is the extreme end of the Spanish railway system towards the Portuguese frontier, I was on it without so much as going outside Seville station". ............................................................................................................................................... p. 27 Em Sagres, Gibbons propõe-se viajar pelo Portugal remoto. "And then the bus seemed to have arrived at nowhere in particular I just stopped it and insisted on getting out. They were calling after me for ever so long, but how without the language was I going to make them understand that I now proposed to do best to tramp through unknown Portugal?". ........ p. 53 "Portugal-off-the-beater-track was my object, and though I had done a bit of it fairly well in coming up through Alentejo, I still wanted more if I could get it". ................................................................... p. 151 "It was more of unknown Portugal that I wanted, and where was I to find any?". .................... p. 152 ÍNDICE Actividades económicas Agricultura Comércio marítimo Comércio religioso Comércio (Setúbal) Comércio (Vila Real de St. António) Indústria Pesca Turismo [Alentejo] Turismo [Algarve] Turismo [Lagos] Alojamento Estalagens Hotel [Cova da Iria] Hotel [Jaca] Hotel [Lisboa] Hotel [Setúbal] Pensão [Odemira] Anedotas inglesas Arquitectura Calçada do Rossio Catedral de Jaca Espanha Estilo manuelino Lisboa Vila Real de Sto. António Arte Crucifixo Escultura Fotografia Padrões portugueses Pintura Tesouro da Catedral de São Salvador Caricatura Religião versus Patriotismo Corrupção Soldados versus civis Monarquia e vício Cigarros Clima Algarve Cabo de São Vicente Elvas Espanha Irun Jaca Lisboa Pirenéus Portugal Serra de Monchique Comunicação Pronúncia Pantomima Crianças Criminalidade Cursos de água Cascatas Ribeiras - Pirenéus Rio Anade Rio Ceixe Rio Guadiana Rio Tejo Rio Sado Desporto Caça Pelota Tourada Economia Finanças Pobreza Entretenimento Cabaré Noite lisboeta Sarau Teatro de variedades Estabelecimentos Café Casa de pasto Clube Farmácia Prisão Restaurante Taberna Estações Estação de Atocha Estação de chão de Maçãs Estação do Entroncamento Estação de Sepulcro Estações - partida Estatísticas Densidade populacional de Lisboa Distribuição populacional Percentagem de católicos na Grã-Bretanha Etimologia Algarve Almodôvar Sagres Sé Fauna Burro Cão Caprinos Carneiros Cavalos Cobra Lobos Pássaros Peixes Flora Árvores (Serra de Monchique) Flores Laranjeiras Tomilho (Cabo de São Vicente) Forças Armadas Armada portuguesa Disciplina Soldados Toque de retirada Gastronomia Aguardente Amortillado Bacalhau Cerveja Refeições Vinho Vinho do Porto Gentes Alcoólico Alentejo Algarve Aragão Ayamonte Cavalheiros portugueses Comandante inglês Condutor de jumento Deficiente Estações de comboios Estudantes Fidalgo Huelva Irun Mr. Wissman Passageiros comboio Irun-Madrid Passageiros comboio Madrid-Sevilha Peregrinos Viagem Irun-Madrid Habitação Higiene Banho Higiene preventiva Saneamento básico História - Factos Algarve Belém Biblioteca de Faro Capela das Aparições Castelo de Palmela Descobrimentos portugueses Domínio mouro Estado anti-clerical Lagos Mouros e reconquista cristã Raças Sagres Silves Tauromaquia Terramoto de 1755 Vila Real de Santo António História - Personagens Conde de Essex Coronel Hugo Beaty Cristovão Colombo Crusados D. Catarina de Aragão D. Catarina de Bragança D. Manuel I D. Pedro I Maria Augustin Mercadores "Mr. Ferrer" Navegadores portugueses Rodrigo de Triana São Pedro de Alcântara Vasco da Gama Hospitalidade Irun Portuguesa Igrejas e Catedrais Basílica de Fátima Capela das Aparições Catedral de Jaca Catedral de Lagos Catedral de Pilar Catedral de São Salvador (La seo) Igreja de Aljezur Igreja de Fátima Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Bonfim Igreja Nova Igreja de Santo António Igreja de Valência de Alcântara Igreja de Vila do Bispo Sé de Lisboa Itinerários Jornais espanhóis Jornal "Secolo" Língua Castelhana Francesa Inglesa Portuguesa Locais e Monumentos Aldeias portuguesas Avenida da Liberdade (Lisboa) Belém (Lisboa) Cabo de São Vicente Castelo de Almourol Castelo mouro Castelo de Palmela El Escorial Fortaleza de Sagres Jardim botânico (Lisboa) Montes Cantábricos Parque de Odemira Pirenéus Praça do Comércio (Lisboa) Praça de Setúbal Praça de Valência de Alcântara Rossio (Lisboa) Sé de Lisboa Serra da Estrela Serra de Monchique Mapas Medidas Comprimento | |
| dc.format.extent | VIII, 207 p. | |
| dc.identifier | H.G. 23874 P. / L. 81053 P. | |
| dc.identifier.other | 157 | |
| dc.identifier.other | B | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://id.bnportugal.gov.pt/bib/catbnp/287599 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://cetapsrepository.letras.up.pt/id/cetaps/114008 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.city | Londres | |
| dc.publisher.country | Inglaterra | |
| dc.rights | metadata only access | |
| dc.source.place | B.N. | |
| dc.subject | Literatura de viagem | |
| dc.title | Afoot in Portugal | |
| dc.type | book | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| person.familyName | Gibbons | |
| person.givenName | John | |
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