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The barren and wild Parque Natural de Montesinho lies between Bragança and Spain, and is home to a number of small, isolated villages that have striven to keep up their traditions of communal ownership and pre-Christian ritual.
Near Cabo de São Vicente and Sagres, the extreme western point, the terrain is surprisingly barren and the facilities decidedly low-key.
Two thousand years ago the Roman senator Cicero noted the creation of barren desert-like land in North Africa after the forests were felled for their timber, providing the earliest record of an ecosystem ‘service’ provided by forests—the stabilisation of soils.
(Britain's war with Argentina over a few barren islands, which Thatcher prosecuted with the zeal of a Churchill, has been compared to two bald men fighting over a comb.)
Coetzee, the Booker Prize-winning white South African novelist and author of Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) and Life & Times of Michael K (1983), tells of barren spaces.