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A World Ago

Name: A World Ago
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ISBN: 9781916045736

Memories of a Madeira Childhood

by Maria Mendonça , Edward Lee · 2019 edition

The memoir of Maria Mendonça, who grew up in the 1960s–70s in one of Madeira’s remotest villages — no gas, electricity, running water or proper road — recorded over daily teatimes by her employer to preserve a vanishing world.

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Authors: Maria Mendonça, Edward Lee
Edition year: 2019
Publisher: Independently published
Language: English
ISBN-13: 9781916045736

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