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Travels In Brazil
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ISBN10: 9354443109
ISBN13: 9789354443107
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Feb 24 2021
Pages: 538
Weight: 1.72
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9789354443107
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Feb 24 2021
Pages: 538
Weight: 1.72
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Step ashore in early nineteenth-century Brazil with Henry Koster as your candid, sharp-eyed companion. Every page hums with life. Written by an English settler who travelled extensively through the country, Travels in Brazil is a classic travel narrative that blends vivid description with humane curiosity, guiding armchair travel readers through bustling ports, remote hinterlands, and the intimate realities of Brazilian plantation life. Koster's plain yet observant style makes distant places, customs, and landscapes feel immediate and astonishingly modern. As a nineteenth century travelogue rooted in first-hand experience of early 1800s Brazil, the work opens an unusually clear window onto colonial Brazil history in its final decades and the transition towards independence. Koster records social hierarchies, commerce, agriculture, religion, and, with sober attention, the structures and daily realities of slavery in Brazil. Long recognised as historical travel writing of the first rank, it remains a primary source for historians and an essential text in Brazil travel history and the wider exploration of South America, standing alongside other South American travel classics. For casual armchair explorers and collectors of classic literature alike, it rewards both close study and relaxed reading. 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.
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