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Excerpt from Brazil: The Amazons and the Coast
At this juncture the Messrs. Scribner 81 Co. Invited me to write a series of articles on Brazil for their magazine. Through their liberality I was enabled to make two more trips to South America, revisiting Rio and the Amazons, and making special studies of the coffee and sugar industries, of social and commercial life, and, finally, of the famine district in Ceara. Mr. J. Wells Champney, the artist, was my companion on one of these trips. To him I am indebted, not only for a series of very accurate and beautiful draw ings, but for many keen observations and intelligent criticisms on Brazilian nature and society.
With these added studies, I began the present work. As my per sonal adventures and observations were, in themselves, hardly worth writing about, I have avoided a purely narrative form. I have, rather, endeavored to frame a series of essays, with a general loose connection, but varying in tense and person as the subjects seemed to require. While generally confining my descriptions to the ground that I have personally been over, I have tried to make them typical of the whole, so that the book, though it does not describe the whole of Brazil, may yet present an intelligible picture of the coun try. Naturally, I have dwelt most on the scenes that I love best the wild streams and glorious green forests of the Amazons. When I have treated of the less pleasant social and commercial life, I have endeavored to weigh my own opinions carefully with those of other persons, and to judge fairly from the whole; thus, the book may appear contradictory in parts, because it does not always praise, nor yet wholly condemn, the Brazilian people. I believe that this is a difficulty which every author must meet, who attempts to write the truth about any nation.
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At this juncture the Messrs. Scribner 81 Co. Invited me to write a series of articles on Brazil for their magazine. Through their liberality I was enabled to make two more trips to South America, revisiting Rio and the Amazons, and making special studies of the coffee and sugar industries, of social and commercial life, and, finally, of the famine district in Ceara. Mr. J. Wells Champney, the artist, was my companion on one of these trips. To him I am indebted, not only for a series of very accurate and beautiful draw ings, but for many keen observations and intelligent criticisms on Brazilian nature and society.
With these added studies, I began the present work. As my per sonal adventures and observations were, in themselves, hardly worth writing about, I have avoided a purely narrative form. I have, rather, endeavored to frame a series of essays, with a general loose connection, but varying in tense and person as the subjects seemed to require. While generally confining my descriptions to the ground that I have personally been over, I have tried to make them typical of the whole, so that the book, though it does not describe the whole of Brazil, may yet present an intelligible picture of the coun try. Naturally, I have dwelt most on the scenes that I love best the wild streams and glorious green forests of the Amazons. When I have treated of the less pleasant social and commercial life, I have endeavored to weigh my own opinions carefully with those of other persons, and to judge fairly from the whole; thus, the book may appear contradictory in parts, because it does not always praise, nor yet wholly condemn, the Brazilian people. I believe that this is a difficulty which every author must meet, who attempts to write the truth about any nation.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Language - English
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Author
Herbert H. Smith
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ISBN - 9780656416448
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm
Page Count - 666
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Herbert H. Smith
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ISBN - 9781330382400
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm
Page Count - 668
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