Walk Book of the month Through Prints by Raul Brandão, the reader is invited to travel to the places of the Algarve waterfront. On this journey through the landscape and its people face filled with descriptions of visual sensations as exemplified by the following excerpt: "In the mornings I go out of Olhão dazzled. Cobalt blue sky - for low plateaus of lime. Reverberation of the sun, and the bluest blue, the whitest white. (...) And in the evening, on this pristine white, the sunset setting yourself up as a big flush. Levantine is a land that I discover, only it lacks the slender minarets. Two colors and smell: white, white, golden white by the sun, which has reached maturity as a result. "
Raul Germano Brandão (Foz do Douro, March 12, 1867 - Lisbon, December 5, 1930). When I finished high school and after a stint of Arts Degree, he enrolled at the Military School, at the request of the mother. In parallel to his military life, he collaborated on Journal of Portugal, in Correio da Manha in Today Magazine, which was co-director. In 1890 he published his first work Travel Impressions and . Raul Brandão belonged to the "generation of 1990" (nineteenth century), influenced by decadent-symbolist aesthetic, and throughout his life he wrote short stories, travel books, plays, historical studies and memoirs.
