Search Results for ‘Brazil’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 10 matches found
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| Author: | Peter Robb |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury |
| Catalogue number: | 135755 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 weeks Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 weeks |
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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 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 |
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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...
| Author: | Boris Fausto |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Catalogue number: | 81353 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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...
| Author: | Bruce Parry |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 167944 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours Not available |
Bruce Parry’s "Amazon" tells the story of Parry’s trip down the world’s greatest river. As seen on BBC TV, Parry follows the length of the Amazon river from the High Andes, through Coca Country, joins...
| Author: | Bruce Parry |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 169744 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
SIGNED COPIES! Bruce Parry’s "Amazon" tells the story of Parry’s trip down the world’s greatest river. As seen on BBC TV, Parry follows the length of the Amazon river from the High Andes, through Coca...
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 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...
The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement
| Author: | Roger Casement |
| Publisher: | Anaconda Editions |
| Catalogue number: | 68985 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
This massive volume contains a complete record of Roger Casement's 1910 journey up the Amazon to investigate the atrocities carried out against the Indians by rubber companies at the beginning of the...
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...
| 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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