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A Death In Brazil

A Death In Brazil

Author:Peter Robb
Publisher:Bloomsbury
Catalogue number:135755
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2005 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
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...

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Brazil: Life, Blood, Soul

Brazil: Life, Blood, Soul

Author:John Malathronas
Publisher:Summersdale Publishers
Catalogue number:116428
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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...

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The War of the End of the World

The War of the End of the World

Author:Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher:Faber and Faber
Catalogue number:143252
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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...

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The Lost City of Z

The Lost City of Z

Author:David Grann
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Catalogue number:179238
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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...

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A Concise History of Brazil

A Concise History of Brazil

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...

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The Naturalist on the River Amazons

The Naturalist on the River Amazons

Author:Henry Walter Bates
Series:Stanfords Travel Classics
Publisher:JB Publishers
Catalogue number:172611
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“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...

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A Simple Brazilian Song

A Simple Brazilian Song

Author:James Woodall
Publisher:Abacus
Catalogue number:69540
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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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