Faial of the faias by Victor Rui Dores - Translation by Katharine - TopicsExpress



          

Faial of the faias by Victor Rui Dores - Translation by Katharine F. Baker and Bobby J. Chamberlain: If I lived here, I would want a house and bed from which I could only see Pico. It would fill my life, Raul Brandão wrote in 1924 in his masterful book As Ilhas Desconhecidas [The Unknown Islands]. Because of this writer, Faial - so named for the abundance of beech-trees [faias] at the time of its discovery - would come to carry the soubriquet blue island due to the profusion of hydrangeas that line its roads, and divide its pastures and other properties.
Posted on: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 12:00:01 +0000

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