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MENDES (Manuel). ROTEIRO Sentimental: Douro. Lisboa. 1964. - MENDES (Manuel) ROTEIRO Sentimental: Douro . Lisboa: Sociedade de Expansão Cultural, 1964. 186, [6] pp.; 190 mm. First edition of the first volume of the trilogy Roteiro Sentimental , which Manuel Mendes (Lisbon, 1906-1969) completed with A Sul do Tejo (1965) and Os Ofícios (1967). This volume brings together travelogues written between 1961 and 1963 and originally published in the newspaper O Primeiro de Janeiro , in which the author travels through the Douro region, interacting with the people of the river – rural workers, fishermen, boatmen, rabelo boat captains, artisans – capturing a world undergoing irreversible transformation. The book was received as one of the most beautiful and serious itineraries ever written about the Douro, and constitutes simultaneously a literary document and a historical testimony of a region and a way of life that the following decade would profoundly alter. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate