Brazil: Backlands - The Canudos Campaign

Brazil: Backlands - The Canudos Campaign Euclides da Cunha, Translated by Elizabeth Lowe   2010   Penguin Classics   Euclides da Cunha’s Os Sertões, originally published in 1902, holds an unparalleled status in Brazilian literature. This journalistic history of the vicious military campaign that exterminated nearly the entire population of a religious settlement in Brazil’s impoverished northeast has contributed more than any other work to solidify the region’s place as a staging-ground for...

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