'My life's done a somersault,' wrote acclaimed modernist writer
Mário de Andrade. After years of dreaming about Amazonia, he
finally embarked on a three-month odyssey up the great river and
into the wild heart of his native Brazil with a group of
avant-garde luminaries. All abandoned ship but a socialite, her two
nieces, and, of course, the author himself. And so begins the
humorous account of Andrade's steamboat adventure into one of the
most dangerous and breathtakingly beautiful corners of the world.
Rife with shrewd observations and sparkling wit, his sarcastic,
down-to-earth diary entries not only offer comedic and
awe-inspiring details of life and the landscape but also trace his
internal metamorphosis: his travels challenge what he thought he
knew about the Amazon, and drastically alter his understanding of
his motherland.
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