Where the road ends : a home in the Brazilian rainforest : a memoir / by Binka Le Breton

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press , 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 285 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780312574055
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • LAS 981 LEB
Contents:
Where Minas begins -- Home on the range -- Lords of the land -- Busting the broncs in Belisário -- Friends and neighbors -- The piano -- The casa grande -- A Christmas christening -- The barefoot vets -- Cremating the cow -- The Brazilian blues -- Policemen and pistoleiros -- Rain it raineth every day -- The tale of the telephone -- Where farm and forest meet -- A woman's place -- Song of Limeira -- Forest angels -- Oxcarts and the internet.
Summary: In 1989, as their mid-life crises approached, concert pianist Binka Le Breton and her husband Robin, an agricultural economist, decided to uproot themselves from their home in Washington, D.C. and start a new life in Brazil. They embarked on an adventure that many readers only dream about--transplanting themselves in a different country and learning (often the hard way) what it takes to survive and flourish.
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Latin American Studies Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. LAS 981 LEB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 024113

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Where Minas begins -- Home on the range -- Lords of the land -- Busting the broncs in Belisário -- Friends and neighbors -- The piano -- The casa grande -- A Christmas christening -- The barefoot vets -- Cremating the cow -- The Brazilian blues -- Policemen and pistoleiros -- Rain it raineth every day -- The tale of the telephone -- Where farm and forest meet -- A woman's place -- Song of Limeira -- Forest angels -- Oxcarts and the internet.

In 1989, as their mid-life crises approached, concert pianist Binka Le Breton and her husband Robin, an agricultural economist, decided to uproot themselves from their home in Washington, D.C. and start a new life in Brazil. They embarked on an adventure that many readers only dream about--transplanting themselves in a different country and learning (often the hard way) what it takes to survive and flourish.

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