Memoir

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Memoir & Living

A World Ago

Maria Mendonça, Edward Lee

English · 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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2019 reprint cover

Flora & Gardens

Leaves from a Madeira Garden

Charles Thomas-Stanford

English · original edition 1909

The genteel 1909 garden memoir that inspired Tony Powell’s modern homage — Sir Charles Thomas-Stanford’s observations of Madeira’s flora, climate and society from the vantage of his garden.

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