First edition: May 6, 1973. The first edition was printed and published by F.D. Dantas at the Printwell Press, Luis de Menezes Road, Panjim. Just now available in an ebook (PDF/epub) format: 11 August 2019. The permission of the family of the late author for reproducing this book is gratefully acknowledged. Released to mark the 90th anniversary of the Saligão Institute. This edition is devoted to Fr Desmond (Demi) de Souza, CSsR, son of the author, a concerned human being and an inspiring priest who served in many parts of the globe, from the Philippines to Goa and beyond. If you'd like a copy, email goa1...@gmail.com with FLOREAT SALIGAO (epub) or (pdf) as your subjectline. Goa,1556 is an alternative publishing venture, named after the year of the accidental arrival of Asia’s first Gutenberg-inspired printing press in Goa. See http://goa1556.in
* * * REGARDING BOOKS ON OTHER VILLAGES (List not complete): I know that Cuncolim has 4-5 books on it, including one translated from Portuguese into Marathi and English by late Adv Lingud R. Dalvi. Planton Faria, the media-savvy priest of the 1980s and thereabouts, also wrote a thick tome on this village. Chandor has Olivinho Gomes' *Village Goa.* Benaulim has *Bannavli: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. A socio-cultural survey,* edited by Francisco Costa, 1992. Themistocles D'Silva has two editions on *Arossim -- Beyond the Beach *and *Unravelling History.* Siolim has *Siolim *by Sebastian DCruz, self-published 1994. Aldona has a village history-genealogy book called *The Last Prabhu*. It's by Bernard de Sousa. Saligao has: * *Saligao: A Picturesque Village* (1973, Patricino de Souza and Alfred Vaz) * *Floreat Saligao* (1973 and 2019, C Hubert de Sousa) ** Echoes, The Spirit of Saligao and Goa*, Joseph St Anne * *The Land of the Sal Tree *(Fr Nascimento). * *Feasts, Feni and Firecrackers*. By Mel D'Souza, 2016. .A lot to.do with Saligao in this book. * *Aida's Ever After,* by Melody Vaz (2016) * *A Song for Saligao* (Clarice Vaz, forthcoming, 2019) Anjuna *Village Anjuna*. Dominic PF Fernandes. *Pioneers from a Coastal Village*, forthcoming Mapusa *Mapusa, Yesterday and Today. *Dominic PF Fernandes. Margao *Soaring Spirit.* Valmiki Faleiro. Moira, have been coaxing five persons to write (some of whom had agreed), but it is yet to get its first book. FN PS: Please don't ask where these books are available. Most aren't. Except for reference maybe at the Central Library's rare books section. Like others, these too suffer from the "Goa book syndrome". When published, nobody wants them; by the time they're noticed, they're already well out of print. -- FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 AUDIO: https://archive.org/details/goa1556 <https://archive.org/details/@fredericknoronha>