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Author | : A.J. Lees |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1912559226 |
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A famed British neurologist embarks on an expedition in Brazil to follow the trail of Percy Fawcett, an occult-obsessed explorer who went missing in the Amazon rainforest and was the subject of the 2016 film The Lost City of Z. As a boy growing up near Liverpool in the 1950s, Andrew Lees would visit the docks with his father to watch the ships from Brazil unload their exotic cargo of coffee, cotton bales, molasses, and cocoa. One day, his father gave him a dog-eared book called Exploration Fawcett. The book told the true story of Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett, a British explorer who in 1925 had gone in search of a lost city in the Amazon and never returned. The riveting story of Fawcett's encounters with deadly animals and hostile tribes, his mission to discover an Atlantean civilization, and the many who lost their own lives when they went in search of him inspired the young Lees to believe that there were still earthly places where one could "fall off the edge." Years later, after becoming a successful neurologist, Lees set off in search of the mysterious figure of Fawcett. What he found exceeded his wildest imaginings. With access to the cache of "Secret Papers," Lees discovered that Fawcett's quest was far stranger than searching for a lost city. There was a "greater mission," one that involved the occult and a belief in a community of evolved beings living in a hidden parallel plane in the Mato Grosso. Lees traveled to Manaus in Fawcett's footsteps. After a time-bending psychedelic experience in the forest, he understood that his yearning for the imaginary Brazil of his boyhood, like Fawcett's search for an earthly paradise, was a nostalgia for what never was. Part travelogue, part memoir, Lees paints a portrait of an elusive Brazil, and of a flawed explorer whose doomed mission ruined lives.
Author | : Larry Rohter |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2012-02-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0230120733 |
Download Brazil on the Rise Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A fabled country with a reputation for danger, romance and intrigue, Brazil has transformed itself in the past decade. This title, written by the go-to journalist on Brazil, intimately portrays a country of contradictions, a country of passion and above all a country of immense power.
Author | : Ira Levin |
Publisher | : Blackstone Publishing |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2024-06-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download The Boys from Brazil Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Nazi hunter uncovers a fugitive SS doctor’s terrifying plot to create a Fourth Reich in The Boys from Brazil, a riveting techno-thriller from the incomparable master of suspense, Ira Levin. Veteran Nazi hunter Yakov Liebermann finds himself entangled in a web of unimaginable horror when he is tipped off to a sinister conspiracy hatching in the depths of South America: a plan to establish a new, globe-spanning Fourth Reich. Why has Dr. Josef Mengele—Auschwitz’s fiendish “Angel of Death”—tasked a team of former SS men with the slaughter of ninety-four harmless, aging men across the globe? What hidden link binds these men together? What significance could they possibly hold for their pursuers? With the clock ticking, and the future of humanity hanging in the balance, can the ailing Liebermann take on a seemingly unstoppable enemy and alter the course of history? Adapted into the film starring Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier, The Boys from Brazil is a gripping, thought-provoking thriller that explores the depths of human malevolence, and the eternal struggle between good and evil.
Author | : Hermano Vianna |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807898864 |
Download The Mystery of Samba Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Samba is Brazil's "national rhythm," the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood. To the outsider, samba and the famous pre-Lenten carnival of which it is the centerpiece seem to showcase the country's African heritage. Within Brazil, however, samba symbolizes the racial and cultural mixture that, since the 1930s, most Brazilians have come to believe defines their unique national identity. But how did Brazil become "the Kingdom of Samba" only a few decades after abolishing slavery in 1888? Typically, samba is represented as having changed spontaneously, mysteriously, from a "repressed" music of the marginal and impoverished to a national symbol cherished by all Brazilians. Here, however, Hermano Vianna shows that the nationalization of samba actually rested on a long history of relations between different social groups--poor and rich, weak and powerful--often working at cross-purposes to one another. A fascinating exploration of the "invention of tradition," The Mystery of Samba is an excellent introduction to Brazil's ongoing conversation on race, popular culture, and national identity.
Author | : Anadelia A. Romo |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807833827 |
Download Brazil's Living Museum Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia has built its economy around attracting international tourists to what is billed as the locus of Afro-Brazilian culture and the epicenter of Brazilian racial harmony. Yet this inclusive ideal has a complicated past. Ch
Author | : Percy Harrison Fawcett |
Publisher | : Sanzani Edizioni |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2024-01-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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The inspiration for the major motion picture "The Lost City of Z," mystic and legendary British explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett spent 10 years wandering the forests and death-filled rivers of Brazil in search of a fabled lost city. Finally, convinced that he had discovered the location, he set out for the last time toward destination “Z” in 1925, never to be heard from again.This thrilling and mysterious account of Fawcett’s ten years of travels in deadly jungles and forests in search of a secret city was compiled by his younger son, Fawcett's companion on his journeys, from manuscripts, letters, and logbooks. An international sensation when it was first published in 1953, Exploration Fawcett was praised by the likes of Graham Greene and Harold Nicolson, and found its way to Ernest Hemingway's bookshelf. Reckless and inspired, full of fortitude and doom, this is a book to rival Heart of Darkness, except that the harrowing accounts described in its pages are completely true. To this day, Colonel Fawcett's disappearance remains a great mystery.
Author | : Dave Zirin |
Publisher | : Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2014-05-05 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1608464334 |
Download Brazil's Dance with the Devil Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of the Boston Globe’s Best Sports Books of the Year: “Incisive, heartbreaking, important and even funny” (Jeremy Schaap, New York Times–bestselling author of Cinderella Man). The people of Brazil celebrated when it was announced that they were hosting the World Cup—the world’s most-viewed athletic tournament—in 2014 and the 2016 Summer Olympics. But as the events were approaching, ordinary Brazilians were holding the country’s biggest protest marches in decades. Sports journalist Dave Zirin traveled to Brazil to find out why. In a rollicking read that travels from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to the fabled Maracanã Stadium to the halls of power in Washington, DC, Zirin examines Brazilians’ objections to the corruption of the games they love; the toll such events take on impoverished citizens; and how taking to the streets opened up an international conversation on the culture, economics, and politics of sports. “Millions will enjoy the World Cup and Olympics, but Zirin justly reminds readers of the real human costs beyond the spectacle.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author | : Emília Viotti da Costa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Download The Brazilian Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This classic work of on the history of 19th-century Brazil now includes a new chapter on women.
Author | : Tobias Hecht |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1998-05-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521598699 |
Download At Home in the Street Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book lays bare the received truths about the lives of Brazilian street children.
Author | : Christopher Idone |
Publisher | : Clarkson Potter |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : |
Download Brazil Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Brazil: A Cook's Tour, Christopher Idone, author of Glorious Food and Glorious American Food, takes the reader along on a culinary journey through this rich country, explaining the food and the lifestyles of the varied regions of Brazil. Starting in Sao Paulo, then moving on to Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, the Amazon, and Minas Gerais, Christopher explores the marketplaces, the home kitchens, the shops, and the eating establishments of the diverse areas and their different culinary influences. One hundred recipes and more than 125 four-color photographs feature the authentic national dishes of Brazil, such as Feijoada, Tutu a Mineira, Picadinho, Empanadas, and myriad sweets, as well as modern Brazilian culinary triumphs such as Shrimp and Heart of Palm Casserole. Detailed recipes make it easy to re-create these dishes in an American kitchen, and an extensive source guide shows you where to obtain the unique ingredients of this delicious cuisine.