The book “Por Este Mar Adentro”, by Maria da Graça Ventura, will be presented next Friday, February 11, from 18 pm, at Café Concerto do TEMPO – Teatro Municipal de Portimão.
The work, published by Tinta-da-China, addresses the successes and failures of sailors and emigrants from the Algarve in Hispanic America.
The session is jointly promoted by the Municipality of Portimão and Tinta-da-China, with Professor Rui Loureiro presenting the book.
In this book, the author writes about the West Indies Career between the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries, when the sea people of the Algarve provided boats, equipment and skilled labor or shelter, especially in the port of Portimão, contributing to the interdependence economic and strategic situation in the region in relation to that route.
«Some of the many Algarve people who ventured out to sea towards South America, at that time, are rescued from memory, illustrating the web of affections that this migratory flow originated from the main towns and ports of the Algarve, especially Portimão, Lagos , Faro, Loulé and Tavira», says the Portimão City Council.
Maria da Graça Ventura is a researcher integrated at the Center for History of the University of Lisbon, an associate researcher at CHAM, a member of the Asociación Española de Americanistas and the Association of European Latin American Historians, being co-founder and current president of the Instituto de Cultura Ibero-Atlântica, created in 1995 in the city of Portimão.
She has published seven books, most of which on Ibero-America, regularly participating in numerous collective works, with book chapters and articles in Portuguese and international journals, and is also an external evaluator of several national and Ibero-American journals.
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