ISBN10: 0805923284, ISBN13: 9780805923285, [publisher: Dorrance & Co.,] Hardcover First Edition 486 pp. First edition. An historical narrative on Brazil with the text in English. Binding tight; boards clean; dust jacket pristine; a very fine copy yet oversize and heavy and will require an additional small shipping charge. Quoting the publisher's note: Roberta Wigder, daughter of an American father and a Brazilian mother, takes her readers on a trip to Brazil, her birthplace, to its cities, ranches, sugar plantation, beaches, museums, convents, and many points of historical importance. She watches the lace makers say good-bye to their fishermen as they put out to sea in their crude boats. She attends colorful festivals where vendors sell native ware, and fold medicine doctors, dancers, and acrobats perform in competition with the Cantador as he delivers the daily news in song. She describes in sensitive and lively detail the landscape, the flora and fauna, the foods, and the customs of Brazil's many ethnic groups. In her penetrating review of recent Brazilian history, Ms. Wigder takes her readers behind the scenes of the 1964 revolution, in which Brazil escaped from the threat of foreign invasion and communist domination. . . . Size: 23 x 16 x 4.5 cm. 0.0
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