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| 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...
| 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...
Tree of Rivers - The Story of the Amazon
| Author: | John Hemming |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson |
| Catalogue number: | 164726 |
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“Tree Of Rivers - The Story of the Amazon” is a riveting account of man’s exploration of the Amazon, as told by John Hemming, a historian and traveler of this magnificent place.
Amazonia is one of the...
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Escaping to Rio is a travel fantasy. The city is possessed of a potency which frightens many, but affects all. Its inhabitants, known as "Cariocas", personify the phrase "carpe diem", as life here is to be consumed, not observed. The solution: abandon your ideas of efficiency, rationality and timekeeping and give...
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