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The apprentice tourist : travels along the Amazon to Peru, along the Madeira to Bolivia, and around Marajó before saying enough already
Turista aprendiz. English
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"This is the first English translation of the queer mulatto Brazilian modernist's humorous account of a three-month voyage to the Amazon that prompts him to rethink his ingrained Eurocentrism, expl...
"This is the first English translation of the queer mulatto Brazilian modernist's humorous account of a three-month voyage to the Amazon that prompts him to rethink his ingrained Eurocentrism, explore Indigenous cultures, and struggle to put into words the grandeur of the now-endangered landscape"--
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- Creator
- Mário de Andrade ; translated with an introduction and notes by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux
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- Language
- English
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- [New York, New York] : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2023]
- ©2023
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- xxv, 175 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780143137351, 0143137352, 9780593511305, 9780593511305
- OCLC
- on1334563527
- Translated from the Portuguese.
- Place of publication from publisher's website.
- Originally published in 1976 in Portuguese as O turista aprendiz by Duas Cidades, São Paulo.
- Includes bibliographical references.