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The Amazon : land without history / Euclides da Cunha ; translated from the Portuguese by Ronald Sousa ; edited with introduction and notes by Lúcia Sá.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Cunha, Euclides da, 1866-1909.
Contributor:
Sá, Lúcia.
Sousa, Ronald W., 1943-
Series:
Library of Latin America.
Library of Latin America
Standardized Title:
Margem da histr̤ia. English. Selections
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Amazon River Valley--History.
Amazon River Valley.
Acre (Brazil)--Description and travel.
Acre (Brazil).
Acre (Brazil)--History.
Amazon River Valley--Description and travel.
Purus River (Peru and Brazil)--Description and travel.
Purus River (Peru and Brazil).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (125 p.)
Place of Publication:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Features eight essays by Euclides da Cunha, about his trip through the Amazonin 1905, written to describe the Brazilian hinterlands to the urban citizens.
Contents:
Contents; Series Editors' General Introduction; Introduction; Translator's Note; General Impressions; Rivers in Abandon; This Accursed Climate; The Caucheros; Judas Ahasverus; ""Brazilians""; Transacreana; Glossary; Bibliography
Notes:
Translated from the Portuguese.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [95]-96).
Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
ISBN:
0-19-993895-4
1-283-02057-2
9786613020574
0-19-977518-4
OCLC:
704275366

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