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The end of the rainy season : discovering my family's hidden past in Brazil / Marian E. Lindberg.
Van Pelt Library PN4874.L4433 A3 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lindberg, Marian E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lindberg, Marian E--Travel--Amazon River Region.
- Lindberg, Marian E.
- Lindberg, Marian E--Family.
- Family secrets--Biography.
- Family secrets.
- Journalists--United States--Biography.
- Journalists.
- United States.
- Runaway husbands.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 295 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint, [2015]
- Summary:
- Marian Lindberg grew up being told that Walter Lindberg, the man who raised her father, was a brave explorer who had been murdered in the Amazon. She took her father's claims at face value, basking in her exotic roots, until she started to notice things. The unverified legend became a riddle she couldn't solve. As Lindberg moved from journalism to law, fell in love, and sought a family of her own, her father repeatedly interfered. He had a closed vision of his family, and she--unlike the silent Walter--was breaking out. Yet her father's story of the past haunted Lindberg. Long after her father's death, Lindberg set off for the Amazon, determined to find out the truth about Walter. Aided by generous Brazilians who adopted her search as if it were their own, she discovered as much about herself and her family as about Walter, whose true role in Brazil's history turned out to be unexpected and deeply troubling.
- Contents:
- Part 1 1
- Chapter 1 Ipanema 3
- Chapter 2 Steamship to Paradise 7
- Chapter 3 Amazon Jungle, Amazon Grave 15
- Chapter 4 Don't Cross-Examine Me 21
- Chapter 5 The Investigation Begins 29
- Chapter 6 Negligence 39
- Chapter 7 Scoring on Varick Street 45
- Chapter 8 An Introduction to Otto Ulrich 51
- Chapter 9 Treasure Maps 55
- Chapter 10 A Hard Lead to Follow 65
- Chapter 11 Love Lessons 69
- Chapter 12 Man on a Mission 74
- Chapter 13 That Other Hemisphere 81
- Chapter 14 Growing Up 88
- Chapter 15 The Groom's Change of Name 95
- Chapter 16 What's Wild 101
- Chapter 17 The Forest for the Trees 109
- Chapter 18 Documents for Christmas-Holy S-! 117
- Chapter 19 Fraud in Tres Lagoas 123
- Chapter 20 Two Chaps in Hats 130
- Chapter 21 The Missing Father, One Way and Another 137
- Chapter 22 Basket Case 142
- Part 2 153
- Chapter 23 Boa Tarde, Brazil 155
- Chapter 24 A Change in the Current 163
- Chapter 25 The Top of the Heap 167
- Chapter 26 Alternative Reality 177
- Chapter 27 Green Gold 183
- Chapter 28 Ringing in the Old 189
- Chapter 29 Good Deeds in Nova Dantzig 193
- Chapter 30 Once Upon a Jungle 201
- Chapter 31 The Kindness of Strangers, Brazilian Style 205
- Chapter 32 A Thin Skull on a Big Man 211
- Chapter 33 Small World, Big Ideas 214
- Chapter 34 Of Writers and Pilots 219
- Chapter 35 A Balcony on the River 225
- Chapter 36 Mato Grosso 231
- Chapter 37 Howlers 238
- Chapter 38 A Platform with the Locals 244
- Chapter 39 And Then We Go On 252
- Chapter 40 Rio 266
- Chapter 41 On a Silver Tray 274
- Chapter 42 Home 284.
- ISBN:
- 9781593766023
- 1593766025
- OCLC:
- 905860409
- Publisher Number:
- 99962568595
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