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A World Ago

Memories of a Madeira Childhood

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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