The High Mountains of Portugal

In Lisbon in 1904 a young man named TomAs discovers an old journal It hints at the location of an extraordinary artefact that if it exists would redefine history Travelling in one of Europes earliest automobiles he sets out in search of this treasure Some thirtyfive years later a Portuguese pathologist finds himself at the centre of a murder mystery Fifty years on a Canadian senator takes refuge in northern Portugal grieving the loss of his beloved wife But he comes to his ancestral village with an unusual companion a chimpanzee The High Mountains of Portugal takes the reader on a road trip through Portugal in the last century and through the human soul