Brazilian Adventure

Author : Peter Fleming
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810160651
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazilian Adventure written by Peter Fleming and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1932 Peter Fleming, a literary editor, engaged to search for missing English explorer Colonel P.H. Fawcett, lost in tributary of the Amazon, with the hardships of meager supplies, faulty maps, and a pack of rival newspaper-men on their trail.

Author : David Grann
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400078458
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost City of Z written by David Grann and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction that unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century—the story of the legendary British explorer who ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization and never returned. “Suspenseful…rollicking.” —The New York Times In 1925, Percy Fawcett went into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called “The Lost City of Z.” In this masterpiece, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s quest for “Z” and his own journey into the deadly jungle. Look for David Grann’s new book, The Wager, coming in April 2023!

Author : Peter Fleming
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781848857919
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazilian Adventure written by Peter Fleming and published by I. B. Tauris. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title presents new Foreword by Giles Foden. In the summer of 1925 Colonel Fawcett - soldier, spy and legendary explorer - embarked on a journey into the dark and uncharted heart of Brazil in search of the lost 'City of Z'. He was never seen again. Rumours abounded - that Fawcett had been killed by Indians or wild animals or that he had lost his memory and become chief of a cannibal tribe - and many became obsessed with discovering what had become of him. In 1932, when "The Times" advertised for 'guns' to join an expedition to find Fawcett, the lure was too great for a young Peter Fleming and he immediately signed up, intending to send dazzling dispatches from the jungle. The expedition set out from Sao Paulo and, following tributaries of the Amazon, headed to Fawcett's last-known position. What followed was, in Fleming's words, 'a venture for which Rider Haggard might have written the plot and Conrad designed the scenery'. As the expedition forged its way deeper into the Amazon, disagreements fractured the group and the entire adventure ended in a chaotic race to be the first to report back home.Though the fate of Colonel Fawcett remains a mystery, Peter Fleming's wild escapade in the heart of Brazil has become one of the 20th century's best-loved travel classics.

Author : Lonely Planet
Publisher : Lonely Planet
ISBN 13 : 1788685113
Total Pages : 1362 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lonely Planet Brazil written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonely Planet’s Brazil is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Party at Carnaval in Rio, come face to face with monkeys and other creatures in the Amazon, and snorkel the natural aquariums of Bonito – all with your trusted travel companion.

Author : Peter Fleming
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447485602
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One's Company - A Journey to China written by Peter Fleming and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Fleming was special correspondent for The Times in the 1930s, He was tasked with 'investigating the communist situation in south China', little did his bosses realise he would create a new type of travel writing. Travelling for seven months through Russia on the Trans-Siberian Express to Manchuria and onwards to China. A book Full of humour and insightful social commentary about a part of the world few had travelled through in 1934. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Linda L. Lowry
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483368963
Total Pages : 2878 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism written by Linda L. Lowry and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 2878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a global and multidisciplinary approach, The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism brings together a team of international scholars to examine the travel and tourism industry, which is expected to grow at an annual rate of four percent for the next decade. In more than 500 entries spanning four comprehensive volumes, the Encyclopedia examines the business of tourism around the world paying particular attention to the social, economic, environmental, and policy issues at play. The book examines global, regional, national, and local issues including transportation, infrastructure, the environment, and business promotion. By looking at travel trends and countries large and small, the Encyclopedia analyses a wide variety of challenges and opportunities facing the industry. In taking a comprehensive and global approach, the Encyclopedia approaches the field of travel and tourism through the numerous disciplines it reaches, including the traditional tourism administration curriculum within schools of business and management, economics, public policy, as well as social science disciplines such as the anthropology and sociology. Key features include: More than 500 entries authored and signed by key academics in the field Entries on individual countries that details the health of the tourism industry, policy and planning approaches, promotion efforts, and primary tourism draws. Additional entries look at major cities and popular destinations Coverage of travel trends such as culinary tourism, wine tourism, agritourism, ecotourism, geotourism, slow tourism, heritage and cultural-based tourism, sustainable tourism, and recreation-based tourism Cross-references and further readings A Reader’s Guide grouping articles by disciplinary areas and broad themes

Author : Bureau of the American Republics (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States of Brazil written by Bureau of the American Republics (Washington, D.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip Lee Phillips
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A List of Books, Magazine Articles, and Maps Relating to Brazil. 1800-1900 written by Philip Lee Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Hentschke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230601758
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vargas and Brazil written by J. Hentschke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-12-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume unites scholars from Brazil, the U.S. and Europe, who draw on a close re-reading of the Vargas literature, hitherto unavailable or unused sources, and a wide array of methodologies, to shed new light on the political changes and cultural representations of Vargas's regimes, realising why he meant different things to different people.

Author : Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1586485962
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Accidental President of Brazil written by Fernando Henrique Cardoso and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room, he feared he'd been handed a political death sentence. The year was 1993, and he would be responsible for an economy that had had seven different currencies in the previous eight years to cope with inflation that had run at 3000 percent a year. Brazil had a habit of chewing up finance ministers with the ferocity of an Amazon piranha. This was just one of the turns in a largely unscripted and sometimes unwanted political career. In exile during the harshest period of the junta that ruled Brazil for twenty years, Cardoso started his political life with a tentative run for the Federal Senate in 1978. Within fifteen years, and despite himself, this former sociologist was running the country. And what a country! Brazil, it is often said, is on the edge of modernity, striding with one foot in mid-air towards the future, the other still rooted deep in a traditional past. It is a land of sophisticated music and brutal gold-digging, of the next global superpower and the last old-time coffee plantations. It is gloriously ungovernable, irrepressibly attractive, and home to the family, friends and extraordinary life of Fernando Henrique Cardoso. This is his story and his love song to his country.