Search Results for ‘Brazil’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 7 matches found
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| Author: | Peter Robb |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury |
| Catalogue number: | 135755 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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Delving into Brazil’s baroque past, Peter Robb’s “A Death in Brazil” looks at its history of slavery and the richly multicultural but disturbed...
| Author: | John Malathronas |
| Publisher: | Summersdale Publishers |
| Catalogue number: | 116428 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
As John Malathronas writes in “Brazil: Life, Blood, Soul”:
‘In Brazil the motto seems to be: if you’ve got it, flaunt it, and if you don’t, flaunt it even more’
An eclectic nation that evokes images...
The War of the End of the World
| Author: | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| Publisher: | Faber and Faber |
| Catalogue number: | 143252 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Mario Vargas Llosa's The War of the End of the World is one of the great modern historical novels- tragic, compelling and incredible to read. Inspired by a real episode in Brazilian history, the author...
| Author: | David Grann |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Catalogue number: | 179238 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
The Lost City of Z is the story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett - the last of a breed of great British explorers who ventured into 'blank spots' on the map with little more than a machete, a compass...
| Author: | Boris Fausto |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Catalogue number: | 81353 |
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From the arrival of the Portuguese to the transition to democracy this is an excellent introduction Brazilian history. Special emphasis is placed upon influential topics such as the destruction of Indian...
The Naturalist on the River Amazons
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Series: | Stanfords Travel Classics |
| Publisher: | JB Publishers |
| Catalogue number: | 172611 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“The Naturalist on the River Amazons” is a classic piece of travel literature. Henry Walter Bates and his co-naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace embarked together in 1848 on an expedition to the forests...
| Author: | James Woodall |
| Publisher: | Abacus |
| Catalogue number: | 69540 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
James Woodall's love of Brazilian music takes him to Rio, the home of the Samba. Because of his friendship with legendary Brazilian singing star, Chico Buarque, he is able write with great insight about...
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