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After the Trees: Living on the Transamazon Highway
After the Trees Living on the Transamazon Highway
Author: Douglas Ian Stewart
Brazil intended the Transamazon Highway to be a paved road to riches, but as recently as 1989 the 1,000-kilometer trip from Belém to Altamira required "three days, six buses, three boats, and a ten-hour hitch with a truck driver named Eduardo" to travel. This lively, readable study explores why colonization of the Amazon fell short of th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780292776784
ISBN-10: 0292776780
Publication Date: 8/1994
Pages: 183
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Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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