Travel & Walking Guides
The Rough Guide to Madeira and the Azores
The current Rough Guide covering both Madeira and the Azores, with regional coverage, itineraries, walking suggestions and practical information, plus a free eBook.
Reading list
Madeira for First-Time Visitors
The short shelf that gets you ready for the island — one great guide, the walks, the wine, a little history and a story to read on the plane.
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Hiking & Levadas
Madeira Walking Guide
The long-running Sunflower Landscapes guide to Madeira: 100 long and short walks plus 6 car tours, with large-scale topographic maps and downloadable GPS tracks. The latest (16th) edition.
Madeira Wine
Madeira: The Islands and Their Wines
The standard modern reference on Madeira wine. This comprehensively updated edition covers the islands’ history and geography, the vineyards and winemaking, a guide to current producers and shippers, and tasting notes on more than 400 wines. Shortlisted for the André Simon Award.
History & Culture
Madeira: A Short Illustrated History
An accessible, illustrated overview of Madeira’s history — from its 15th-century discovery and settlement through the sugar and wine economies to the modern era — produced with the Madeira Story Centre in Funchal.
Flora & Gardens
Madeira: A Botanical Melting Pot
A colour-illustrated botanical pocket guide describing 166 typical plants of Madeira, organised by habitat — gardens and parks, the coast, cultivated land and levadas, the laurisilva forest and the mountains.
Fiction & Literature
Tango in Madeira
Set in Madeira after WWI, a disillusioned ex-soldier tries to rescue his family’s failing wine business as the island fills with real figures of the era — an exiled emperor, Agatha Christie at Reid’s Hotel, George Bernard Shaw learning to tango — and a murder draws him in.