A sweeping and absorbing Biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the present For many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty; beautiful beaches and violence-torn favelas.
In an extraordinary journey that spans five hundred years, from European colonization to the 2016.
Brazil occupies a vivid place in the American imagination, and yet it remains largely unknown.
A sweeping and absorbing Biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the present For many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty; beautiful beaches and violence-torn favelas
