Brazil World Frontier - Softcover

H Hunnicutt, Benjamin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9354216021 ISBN 13: 9789354216022

Verlag: Alpha Editions, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

An electrifying Brazil travel narrative from a moment when the continent still felt like a new world. The frontier breathes in ink. Benjamin H. Hunnicutt's Brazil World Frontier reads as both exploration memoir and early twentieth century nonfiction: careful field observation fused with intermittent reflection. The prose is plain yet observant; descriptions of riverbanks, canopy life and rural settlement are rendered with the specificity of natural history travel and the wider curiosity of a traveller intent on making sense of scenes he passes through. Beyond catalogue, the book records the everyday mechanics of movement across the South American frontier - ways of living, exchange, labour and the encounters that shaped local society. These cultural encounters Brazil sketches are sparing but telling, and they give the work documentary weight. For readers attracted to atmosphere and narrative drive there is palpable adventure literature classic energy; for historians and geographers this title offers contemporaneous detail useful to studies of amazon rainforest history and latin america geography. Readers interested in environmental history will notice threads of change and continuity; ecologists and regional specialists will find observational notes that can illuminate later studies. The voice alternates between curiosity and restraint, a steady witness whose particularity rewards close reading and reflective return. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Appealing to casual readers and classic-literature collectors alike, this edition belongs on both the coffee table and the specialist shelf. It is a welcome addition to any travel enthusiasts collection and a compact academic research resource for those pursuing 1920s brazil exploration, environmental history and the shifting human geographies of frontier zones. Short, readable and richly atmospheric, it rewards readers who want vivid travel writing and scholars who need primary voices on Brazil's past.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Alpha Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9354216021
• ISBN 13: 9789354216022
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 414
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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