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Uncover the many layers of Brazil. Canoe the jungles of the Amazon, hang glide above Rio’s beaches or experience the baroque architecture of Ouro Prêto. Whether you want to listen to the roar of Iguaçu Falls or get down at Carnaval, this essential guide will show the way.

• hundreds of lodging options, from Amazon riverboat hammocks to Co...

Ingram
Rio is the world's biggest tropical city, and one of the most densely populated places on Earth. This guide features all the information a traveler to Rio needs to know, including suggestions for day trips, tips for independent travelers, accommodation, food and restaurant options, notes on visiting during Carnaval, and more. Full-color map section. --This text refers ...

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"I hate travelling and explorers," famously declared Claude Lévi-Strauss, but how fortunate for readers that he should overcome his loathing to write about his experiences among the indigenous peoples of the Brazilian interior, including the Caduveo, Bororo, and Nambikwara tribes. Those who know Lévi-Strauss and Tristes Tropiques by reputation onl...

From Book News, Inc.
A beautifully illustrated volume (150 color maps, 289 color photos, and details of 14 rivers) providing an intimate view of one of the most magnificent rivers on Earth. Many dimensions are covered: geology, ecology, the flow of the rivers, flora and fauna, environmental effects of human activities (mining, forestry, dams, farming), and a section-by-section ...

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1. Greater Rio de Janeiro
2. Rio Southern Zone
3. Rio de Janeiro State
4. Rio Northern Zone
5. Unique Lonely Planet Walking Tour
6. Index of all Streets & Sights
7. Essential Information

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A superb guide for ecotravelers visiting Brazil's Pantanal area, an immense wetland known for its amazing wildlife. Written by two professional biologists in an accessible, informative style, this guide provides the information needed to find, identify, and learn about Brazil's most common insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and fish. Includes ch...

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"The granddaddy of budget guides"
--The New York Times

"Guides that penetrate the veneer of holiday brochures and mine the grit of real life"
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Whether you travel for business, pleasure, or a combination of the two, the ever-popular CULTURE SHOCK! series belongs in your backpack or briefcase. Get the nuts-and-bolts information you need to survive and thrive wherever you go. CULTURE SHOCK! country guides are easy-to-read, accurate, and entertaining crash courses in local customs and etiquette. CULTURE SH...

From the Back Cover
Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer. And avoid tourist traps. At Frommer’s, we use 150 outspoken travel experts around the world to help you make the right choices. Frommer’s. Your guide to a world of travel experience.

Choose the Only Guide That Gives You:

• Outspoken opinions on what’s worth your ti...

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Ingram
Shining a light on a country where the commingling of cultures has created a people who are unafraid to embrace life. Just a few of the many stories and notable authors readers will find in this book are "A Place for Living" by Bill McKibben, "Opium of the People" by Alma Guillermoprieto, "On the Banks of the Solimoes" by Joe Kane, and many more.

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Inside Flap Copy
No matter what your budget or whether it's your first trip or fifteenth, Fodor's Gold Guides get you where you want to go. In this completely up-to-date guide our experts who live in Brazil give you the inside track, showing you all the things to see and do -- from must-see sights to off-the-beaten-path adventures, from shopping to outdoor fun. Fodor's Brazil sh...

Language Notes
Text: English, Portugese --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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While novelist Ian Fleming is best known for bringing adventurer James Bond to life, his writer brother Peter Fleming, a reporter for The Times of London, survived South American misadventures so challenging they make 007's high-risk existence seem placid in comparison. Lured by a mysterious newspaper ad, Fleming sails with an expedition to Brazil in the 1930s,...

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Vanderbilt University historian Marshall C. Eakin provides an authoritative survey of Latin America's largest country. His broad and insightful overview reveals Brazil's many facets, including its racial melting pot (which often startles foreign visitors), economic challenges ("Brazil remains a rich country full of poor people"), and (in the book's most ente...

From Publishers Weekly
In 1980, the author and his two teenage sons embarked on a canoe trip from Winnipeg to Belem, Brazil, where the Amazon meets the Atlantic. One son, discouraged, returned to Canada from Mexico, but Starkell and his other son went on, completing the trip in two years. Traveling 12,000 miles on rivers and open seas in their 21-foot canoe, they encountered eve...

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Brazil is a complex country of Indian, Portuguese, and African descent that mixes its heritage in amazing culinary concoctions, but you need savvy to partake as fully and gloriously as you might like. From abacaxi (pineapple) and abobrinha (squash) to national favorites like farofa de banana (bananas fried with onion rings and manioc meal) and ...

From Library Journal
One in a new series called "Insight Cityguides." Other "Cityguides" are to Bangkok, Dublin, Istanbul, Jerusalem, London, Paris, and San Francisco. Each book has separate chapters focusing on the different elements and attractions important to understanding that particular city.-- MR
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One of over 400 titles in the Insight series,

Insight Guide Brazil. This 375-page book includes a section detailing Brazil's history, 9 features covering the country's life and culture, ranging from its shocking wealth divisions to its passion for soccer and carnival, a region by region visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive Travel Tips section pa...

From Library Journal
Despite its rather uninspiring title, this work offers a fascinating and unique insight into 1850s Brazil. Originally published in France in the 19th century, it was later translated into English by the author's daughter. Toussaint-Samson, a well-educated Frenchwoman hungry to seek out new experiences, lived in Brazil for more than ten years. This account on...

Long Island, NY Newsday, 2/6/2000
This luscious volume, such a feast for the eyes, also offers a CD of actual carnival sounds for your ears....

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Where three countries meet at the "triple frontier" (Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina), South America's most famous waterfalls are located. Iguazu falls will astonish anyone who is fortunate enough to visit them. A magnificent canyon in the rain forest drew the admiration of the pre Columbian people and the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadors in the XVIth centur...

From Library Journal
Herndon, a U.S Navy captain, was ordered by the government to explore the Amazon in 1851 and write down his observations. Within a year he and his group had traveled more than 4000 miles by canoe, by mule, and often on foot at the peril of disease, hostiles, and being chomped by snakes (and today's trekkers carp because they can't plug in their hair dryers)....

Riotur, Rio de Janeiro
Congratulations on the quality and accuracy. It is very well written - you have a first class team! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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