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History & Culture
With selection notes
English · 1988 edition
An extensively researched account of nearly two centuries of British commercial and social influence on Madeira, tracing how resident merchant families informally “colonised” the island as a key staging post in transatlantic trade.
History & Culture
English · 1970 edition
The illustrated travel journal of Isabella de França, wife of a London merchant of Madeiran origin — lost for nearly a century, then rediscovered — offering a vivid writer’s and watercolourist’s portrait of island life in 1853–54.
History & Culture
English · 1986 edition
An illustrated history of the Madeiran Portuguese in British Guiana, who began arriving in 1835 to work on sugar plantations and later became a prominent merchant community.
Memoir & Living
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.
History & Culture
English · 2004 edition
Part of the "Of Islands & Women" series — a literary and historical exploration of Madeira through the lives of its women and the accounts of women travellers and writers who visited or lived on the island.
History & Culture
English · 2004 edition
An illustrated study of Madeira’s historic quintas — the grand manor-house estates of Funchal built by Portuguese aristocrats and British wine-merchant families — documenting their architecture, history and decline.