Why a Booktrail?
A travelogue of all times meets history book meets cultural odyssey. You definitely need a map with this book!
A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissions
What you need to know before your trail
A sweeping history, travelogue and investigation of culture through food and politics.
The author has lived and breathed Brazil as well as other countries so understands the nuances of the country well. He weaves past, present with his own experiences of a country with a unique story to tell. Corruption, history, politics, travel, society and even the food. Quite an account of a story in all senses of the word.
Travel Guide
From the shores of southern Brazil to the arid mountains of the northeast crossing four centuries of Brazilian history, this is a wide and far reaching story of a country of many contrasts.
It’s not all politics and history though – you get to sample the pleasures of the food, music, and climate of the country too as well as references to some of Brazil’s greatest writers.
A well rounded book which teaches as it fascinates and really gets inside the country and its people. A Death in Brazil is an experience of its culture and language, food and drink, history and present, society and politics and is as colourful as one of its famous carnivals.
Brazil also has quite a colourful past – from its heritage as a former colony to the military dictatorship to its Portuguese language amidst a sea of Spanish..
But whilst all of that which is fascinating, it’s the author’s experience of murder, carioca slang, military police, the favelas, the violence and the unusual trips to the money exchange place to name but a few.
This is a man who has experienced Brazil with his five senses and then some. Essential tips that you would never find in a travel guide!
There are two maps detailing all places mentioned at the front of the book.
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