![]() For white settlers Brazil's opportunities seemed endless, for imported black slaves it was a hell on earth.īrazil: A Biography, written by two of Brazil's leading historians and a bestseller in Brazil itself, is a remarkable attempt to convey the overwhelming diversity and challenges of this huge country - larger than the contiguous USA and still in some regions not fully mapped - from its origins to the twenty-first century. Its native people both revolutionized Europe's ideas of itself and were then subject to extermination. More than any other part of the 'New World' it displayed both the greatest beauty and grandeur and witnessed scenes of the most terrible European ferocity. Since Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an unfailing source of extraordinary fascination. ![]() ![]() ![]() an enormously refreshing treat' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times ![]()
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