"My life's done a somersault," wrote Mário de Andrade, the queer mulatto "pope" of Brazilian modernism, in a letter, on the verge of taking a leap. After years of dreaming about Amazonia, he finally embarks on a three-month steamboat voyage up the great river and into one of the most dangerous and breathtakingly beautiful corners of the world. Rife with shrewd observations and sparkling wit, and featuring more than a dozen photographs, The Apprentice Tourist not only offers an awed and awe-inspiring fish-out-of-water account of the Indigenous peoples and now-endangered landscapes of Brazil that Andrade encounters (and, comically, sometimes fails to reach), but also traces his internal metamorphosis: The trip prompts him to rethink his ingrained Eurocentrism, challenges his received narratives abut the Amazon, and alters the way he understands his motherland and the vast diversity of cultures found within it.
- ISBN:
- 9780143137351
- 9780143137351
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Category:
- Travel & holiday
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
-
23-05-2023
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Penguin Canada
- Country of origin:
- Canada
- Dimensions (mm):
- 194x127x16mm
- Weight:
- 0.17kg
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