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

By:

Le Breton, Binka

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press , 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 285 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780312574055

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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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS 981 LEB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		024113

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Previous	LAS 980.08 KEE Readings in Latin-American civilization, 1492 to the present	LAS 980.1 STE Handbook of South American Indians	LAS 980.9 RIP Latin America ; a modern history	LAS 981 LEB Where the road ends : a home in the Brazilian rainforest : a memoir	LAS 981 LEV River of darkness : Francisco Orellana's legendary voyage of death and discovery down the Amazon	LAS 981 POP Brazil, the land and people	LAS 981 ROB A death in Brazil : a book of omissions	Next

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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