The High Mountains of Portugal is a 2016 novel by Canadian author Yann Martel.

Working as an assistant in the National Museum of Ancient Art he finds the diary of Father Ulisses, a homesick missionary worker who died in São Tomé in 1635, where the slave trade was blooming.

Tomás borrows an early Renault from his rich uncle and drives to the North East of Portugal.

During an autopsy Eusebio finds a chimpanzee and a bear cub inside of the corpse.

After the death of his wife he travels to Oklahoma City, where he decides to adopt a chimpanzee named Odo.

The crucifix of the Messiah with a chimpanzee face means that Father Ulisses already believed in Darwinism before it was invented.

At the 2016 Governor General's Awards, Christophe Bernard was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English to French translation for the novel's French translation, Les hautes montagnes du Portugal.