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Fordlandia

Fordlandia

by Patricia J. Duncan (Translator)  •  Eduardo Sguiglia

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 272 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

This novel mythologizes automaker Ford's grandly misbegotten adventure to cultivate a rubber plantation deep in the Amazon Jungle. In the process, the Argentine writer paints a portrait of conflict between capitalist economic interests and the primordial mystery of nature.  (AMZ72, $13.95)

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