No comments about A narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro,: With an account of the native tribes, and observations on the climate, geology, and natural history ... Minerva library of famous books. [v. 8]).

No comments about Novas Travessias: Contemporary Brazilian Photography.

No comments about Journeys and experiences in Argentina, Paraguay, and Chile,: including a side trip to the source of the Paraguay River in the state of Matto Grosso, Brazil, ... across the Andes to the Rio Tambo in Peru.

1 comments about Rio de Janeiro (Great Cities).

1. Rio de Janeiro may be the most beautiful setting for a city in the world - it is a photographer's dream. There are pictures of beaches, mountains, cliffs, parks, and gardens, but about half of the book is devoted to far less interesting pictures of buildings. I have nothing against buildings, indeed I live in a building, but it's a skinny book, and more architectural shots means less of the natural grandeur of the city is shown.

   Most annoying is the many lame choices of pictures for the full page spreads. Rather than choose the sorts of pictures that really show off the city in all of its glory, they chose many "artsy" pictures of graffiti, a pole with lots of wires, etc.

   The city is beautiful, and this does come through in many of the pictures, the 2 star rating is my opinion of the book given potential of the city.

   Note to the authors: Take a look at the book Spectacular Israel, that's a book that lives up to, and almost exceeds the potential of its subject.

2 comments about Travels in the Interior of Brazil.

1. Travels in the interior of Brazil, George Gardner.

   Gardner made his epic adventure in the middle of the 1800's entering into a young country with an ancient heritage.. The book opens with a prosaic account of his first senses of Rio. I say senses because every sense is so vividly described. So clear are the descriptions, they take you back to over a century ago and as you travel back with Gardner you marvel at the sights, sounds and flower scented air he describes, on entering the bay. After some time Gardner ventured from Rio to the northern coasts, through unchartered and often physically hostile territories. Amid eloquent descriptions of the hardships of expedition, you travel along and see the places and the peoples as they tread through the book. Towns appear, vividly described, time travel to Crato in the heat stricken northeast Ceara state, and deeper described are local idiosynchrasies, take Crato's fossil fish mines, the peoples, the dusty heat tortured, windswept to flooded and verdant landscapes.. and high plateaus with cascading springs, reminiscent of Arthur Conan Doyle's, Lost World. Perchance was this the book that inspired Conan-Doyle.. with its mention of bizarre exceptionally presereved fossils and high plateau landscapes... A truly magnificent book, believe in time travel and allow yourself to be taken back with this amazing account of one man's epic expedition..




2. Travels in the interior of Brazil, George Gardner.

   Gardner made his epic adventure in the middle of the 1800's entering into a young country with an ancient heritage.. The book opens with a prosaic account of his first senses of Rio. I say senses because every sense is so vividly described. So clear are the descriptions, they take you back to over a century ago and as you travel back with Gardner you marvel at the sights, sounds and flower scented air he describes on entering the bay. After some time Gardner ventured from Rio to the northern coasts, through unchartered and often physically hostile territories. Amid eloquent descriptions of the hardships of expedition, you travel along and see the places and the peoples as they tread through the book. Towns appear, vividly described, time travel to Crato in the heat stricken northeast Ceara state, and deeper described are local idiosynchrasies, take Crato's fossil fish mines, the peoples, the dusty heat tortured, windswept to flooded and verdant landscapes.. or high plateaus with cascading springs, reminiscent of Arthur Conan Doyle's, Lost World. Perchance was this the book that inspired Conan-Doyle.. with its mention of bizarre exceptionally presereved fossils and high plateau landscapes... A truly magnificent book, believe in time travel and allow yourself to be taken back with this amazing account of one man's epic expedition..

No comments about Santa Catarina Road Map 2007 (Brazil).

No comments about Frommer's Touring Guides Brazil.

No comments about Rio De Janeiro (Global Cities).

No comments about Reconciliation and reproach: Benedict in Brazil.(ANALYSIS)(Pope Benedict XVI): An article from: National Catholic Reporter.

No comments about SKETCHES OF RESIDENCE AND TRAVELS IN BRAZIL, EMBRACING HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHIC.