In Brazil - Couverture souple

Bryson, Fran

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1925228371 ISBN 13 : 9781925228373

Editeur : Scribe Publications, 2016

Synopsis

In Brazil, you can commune with spirits and you can party with gods. In Brazil, you can learn a lot about life, heroes, and possibilities. Over many years, Fran Bryson developed a fascination with Brazil that slowly became an obsession. She travelled to different regions, over several different journeys, until eventually she had traversed the country: from the glittering modern city of Brasilia to the small, heavily religious towns; from the inner reaches of the Amazonian jungle to the vibrant regional areas, or backlands home to cowboys and troubadours. You might think you know about Brazil ever since the nation hosted the World Cup. After all, we ve all heard about the danger and the corruption; we ve seen the samba and the football. But Brazil can teach you a great deal. It is loud, fun-loving, and faith-filled. It is welcoming but can have a dark underbelly. It can be a challenge to travel through especially for an Australian woman who lives on a tiny island off the Tasmanian coast, raised to believe in the nothing-ever-after, who may just have became entranced by the possibilities of the afterlife and now no longer knows what to believe. In Brazil is Fran s experiences of travelling through one of the world s most colourful and contradictory nations and, in doing so, making sense her life and the world around her. It is about motivation, belief, and confounded expectations. This beautifully written book is not merely a travelogue, but also a meditation on how we live our lives.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Fran Bryson is a travel writer and a former literary agent. She lives on Flinders Island, largest of the Furneaux islands, in the treacherous waters of Bass Strait, in south-eastern Australia. In the course of researching and writing In Brazil, Fran took psychedelic drugs in the middle of the Amazon, sought out ancient and modern-day religious cults, and performed with a dance school as part of Carnaval in Rio.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Scribe Publications
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1925228371
• ISBN 13: 9781925228373
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible