The Apprentice Tourist
Andrade, Mário de / Thomson-DeVeaux, Flora
A Brazilian masterpiece, now in English for the first time: a playfully profound chronicle of an urban sophisticate's misadventures in the AmazonA Penguin Classic"My life's done a somersault, " wrote Mário de Andrade, the queer mulatto "pope" of Brazilian modernism and author of the epic novel Macunaíma. After years of dreaming about Amazonia, and almost fifty years before Bruce Chatwin ventured into one of the most remote regions of South Ame...