Richard Simas, a freelance writer with a background in literature, music, and the performing arts, publishes regularly in contemporary art and literary reviews. His book The Mystery of the Portuguese Waltzes was published in 2019 and was a finalist in the 2020 Indie Publisher Awards.

• Acknowledgments – Intentions, Artistic Collaborator Helena Flores, Photographer – Prologue – Questions – Abel from Caxinas – Os Dancings no Morro: The Dance Halls on the Hill – Ulysses from Vila Praia de ncora – Reading Bernardo Santareno and Land of the Cod – The Women – José da Conceição, Ship Deserter – Mestre Gabriel, Mestre Clemente from Praia de Mira – Jaime Pontes, Cod Fisherman, Raconteur – Many Manuel da Silvas/A Violin in the Attic – Afterword – List of Figures – Notes and Works Cited – Permissions.