Travelers' Tales Brazil (Travelers' Tales Guides)

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Summary: Travelers' Tales Brazil
Review: "Only the lowest wattage dimbulb would visit Brazil without reading this book."-Tim Cahill, author of Jaguars Ripped My Flesh and Pecked to Death by Ducks

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Summary: Back to Brazil
Review: After returning home from a 10 day missions trip to Brazil I found myself scouring the book shelves for books on Brazilian culture and history. The stories captured in Travelers' Tales : Brazil, truly brought me right back to Brazil. Each tale awoke a memory, a scent, a feeling that could only be brought on by "saudade". I look forward to my next trip to this rich country armed with a book full of ideas for my next adventure.

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Summary: Back to Brazil
Review: After returning home from a 10 day missions trip to Brazil I found myself scouring the book shelves for books on Brazilian culture and history. The stories captured in Travelers' Tales : Brazil, truly brought me right back to Brazil. Each tale awoke a memory, a scent, a feeling that could only be brought on by "saudade". I look forward to my next trip to this rich country armed with a book full of ideas for my next adventure.

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Summary: A book to dip into for a taste of Brazil. Recommended!
Review: Business travellers have the great privilege of travelling to many parts of the world, but the disadvantage that we rarely get to see very much of our destination other than the airport, taxi, hotel, meeting rooms and restaurants. Travellers' Tales Brazil is different from the typical travel guide, in that it provides many short portraits of many aspects of life in Brazil - making it eminently readable, the kind of book to dip into as time permits, adding that bit of local colour to my visit. Recommended!

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Summary: This book is overrated.
Review: Having read rave reviews, I purchased Travelers' Tales Brazil. While some of the stories are interesting, the whole book smacks of dilettantism, that is, the stories are written by rich kids who got to spend some time there and want us to know about it. I don't think having lots of short stories by lots of different dilettantes, sort of a shotgun approach, adds anything. An in-depth book by an individual, sympathetic observer would be much better. Probably a good novel of Brazil would also be much better. Travelers' Tales didn't do much for me

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Summary: So much more fun and interesting than a typical travel guide
Review: I so enjoyed reading about the people and places of Brazil in this book. I am hooked on "Travelers' Tales" books now. I am excited to have a deeper knowledge now of the heart of this place in preparation for my trip there. The short story format is ideal for me and the variety of entries paints a colorful picture. Anyone traveling to Brazil should pick this up for before and after the trip.

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Summary: So much more fun and interesting than a typical travel guide
Review: I so enjoyed reading about the people and places of Brazil in this book. I am hooked on "Travelers' Tales" books now. I am excited to have a deeper knowledge now of the heart of this place in preparation for my trip there. The short story format is ideal for me and the variety of entries paints a colorful picture. Anyone traveling to Brazil should pick this up for before and after the trip.

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Summary: So much more fun and interesting than a typical travel guide
Review: I so enjoyed reading about the people and places of Brazil in this book. I am hooked on "Travelers' Tales" books now. I am excited to have a deeper knowledge now of the heart of this place in preparation for my trip there. The short story format is ideal for me and the variety of entries paints a colorful picture. Anyone traveling to Brazil should pick this up for before and after the trip.

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Summary: I loved it and think Chesser is a cheesehead
Review: I thought that the book was a balanced collection of wonderful and telling tales of life in Brazil; well rounded and very well put together. I strongly recommend it.

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Summary: An Interesting Mix of Perspectives
Review: The book is unique in its wide range of viewpoints and subject matter. Interesting to see Brazil covered this way. I found it very helpful when I went to Brazil, along with the books "Lonely Planet: Brazil" and "The Brazilian Sound" (Temple University Press).