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Insight City Guide Rio de Janeiro
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2006 PAPER 256 PAGES
This eyecatching guidebook features beautiful full-color photographs, illuminating area maps, a separate pullout map, a street atlas and expanded practical information.
(BZL60, $16.95)
Rio de Janeiro
Ruy Castro
TRAVEL NARRATIVE 2004 HARD COVER 224 PAGES
A marvelous, diverse portrait of Rio, its history, culture and challenges. Castro is a Brazilian journalist who has written widely on music, sports and contemporary affairs. The fifth book in Bloomsbury's Writer and the City series.
(BZL42, $16.95)
The Brazilians
Joseph Page
CULTURAL PORTRAIT 1996 PAPER 540 PAGES
A clear and compelling introduction to the country, covering politics, history, economics, culture, and character. The turmoil and ecological destruction in the Amazon basin is discussed in one of the many thought-provoking chapters.
(AMZ16, $22.95)
Samba
Alma Guillermoprieto
TRAVEL NARRATIVE 1991 PAPER 244 PAGES
A memorable account of life and music on the coast of Brazil by the talented and wide-ranging Guillermoprieto, a staff writer at the New Yorker and award-winning journalist. A dancer herself, she lived for a year in Manguiera, a favela near Rio known for its samba school. Nominated for a National Book Award.
(BZL38, $13.95)
Rio de Janeiro Map
Borch Maps
2006 MAP
A laminated road map of Rio de Janeiro at a scale of 1:13,000.
(BZL25, $8.95)
Rio de Janiero Destination Map
National Geographic
A laminated, folded map of Rio.
(BZL24, $8.99)
Knopf Mapguide Rio De Janeiro
Knopf Guides
GUIDEBOOK
A handy set of full color, ingeniously folded maps, each indicating favorite sites, shops, restaurants and attractions.
(BZL55, $9.95)
Lonely Planet Rio de Janeiro
Regis St. Louis
GUIDEBOOK
This practical guide to the Brazilian city features maps, a good overview of culture, history and nature, and much nuts-and-bolts information
(BZL19, $18.99)
Portuguese, Start Speaking Today (Brazilian)
Language/30
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A 90-minute primer on Brazilian Portuguese following the foreign service method.
(BZL36, $21.95)
Say It in Portuguese, Brazilian Usage
Alexander Prista
Francisco Da Costa
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A handy, palm-size phrasebook for travelers with 1,100 useful words and expressions. It provides the English phrase, Portuguese equivalent and transliteration.
(BZL37, $4.95)
Wallpaper City Guide Rio De Janeiro
Wallpaper Magazine
GUIDEBOOK
A stylish, thin (it fits in your back pocket) city guide compiled by the design magazine Wallpaper's local reporters. Well-organized, with chapter tabs, many photographs and of-the-moment recommendations.
(BZL56, $8.95)
Bossa Nova, The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World
Ruy Castro
HISTORY
A lively journalistic history called, in its orginal Portuguese "Chega de saudade" after Jobim's landmark song.
(BZL47, $17.95)
The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Robert M. Levine
John J. Crocitti
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
Diverse letters, interviews and other documents from early colonization to contemporary literature, this book is an excellent overview of the history and culture of Brazil.
(BZL12, $25.95)
The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova, and the Popular Music of Brazil
Chris McGowan
Ricardo Pessanha
MUSIC
A wide-ranging history of popular music in Brazil, revised with an undated discography of 1000 titles. The authors write for Billboard magazine.
(BZL52, $31.95)
A Death in Brazil
Peter Robb
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Peter Robb (Midnight in Sicily) flourishes his masterly combination of travel, politics, culture and history on the subject of Brazil in all its complexity. This book is impressive for its prose, insight and the author's sheer bravura.
(BZL43, $15.00)
Travelers' Tales Brazil
Annette Haddad
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A collection of stories, articles and excerpts on Brazil -- an excellent introduction to the people, culture and traditions of the country as seen through the eyes of modern writers.
(BZL06, $18.95)
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Jorge Amado
LITERATURE
The best known novel by Brazil's much loved author. Amado spins a satiric tale of a young cooking teacher in Salvador, Bahia, who is haunted by her first husband, a philandering ne'er do well who dropped dead at carnival.
(BZL35, $14.95)
The Silence of the Rain
Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
MYSTERY
A businessman is killed and Inspector Espinosa, an intellectual with a wandering heart, is on the case in this bestselling Brazilian mystery, memorably set in Rio de Janeiro.
(BZL61, $15.00)
The Slum
Aluisio Azevedo
LITERATURE
Azevedo tackles social issues, including racism and overwhelming material desire, in this classic tale of star-crossed lovers, first published in 1890.
(BZL27, $24.95)
The War of the End of the World
Mario Vargas Llosa
Helen Lane
LITERATURE
An unforgettable historical novel about the rebellion of the lower-class citizens of Canudos, Brazil, in the late 19th century.
(BZL18, $16.00)
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