The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha by Susanna B. Hecht

The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha

Susanna B. Hecht

632 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous medium-paced
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The fortunes of the late nineteenth century’s imperial and industrial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber—with only one source: the Amazon basin. And so began the scramble for the Amazon—a decades-long conflict that found Britain, Fran...

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