Journey on the Estrada Real Encounters in the Mountains of Brazil
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Life along the Estrada Real is still very much in the 19th century. Women cook meals on wood stoves. Men go about their business on horseback. Mules carry firewood and such. People will invite a stranger into the house and offer him food. Cheney's book is a unique look at the cradle of Brazilian culture. This isn't the Brazil of beaches, rain forests, and slum-infected cities. It's a place where tradition, architecture, food, music, and values go back hundreds of years. But the quiet, rural life along the Estrada Real is under assault from global culture, a concern Cheney grapples with as he makes what may be the last observations of a dying way of life. The book includes photographs taken along the Estrada Real.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780897335300 |
Publisher: | Chicago Review Press |
Imprint: | Chicago Review Press |
Pub date: | 30 Nov 2004 |
Number of pages: | 226 |
Weight: | 270g |
Height: | 215mm |
Width: | 140mm |
Spine width: | 12mm |