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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791779003321

Autore

Cunha Euclides da <1866-1909.>

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-19-993895-4

1-283-02057-2

9786613020574

0-19-977518-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (125 p.)

Collana

Library of Latin America

Altri autori (Persone)

SáLúcia

SousaRonald W. <1943->

Disciplina

918

Soggetti

Amazon River Valley History

Acre (Brazil) Description and travel

Acre (Brazil) History

Amazon River Valley Description and travel

Purus River (Peru and Brazil) Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the Portuguese.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [95]-96).

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

Features eight essays by Euclides da Cunha, about his trip through the Amazonin 1905, written to describe the Brazilian hinterlands to the urban citizens.