Description
Embark on a steamboat journey down the Amazon and beyond with a restless narrator whose diary entries capture the vast beauty and inherent dangers of the landscape. This "apprentice tourist" offers not a curated itinerary, but a series of vivid, often unsettling impressions that challenge assumptions about travel, culture, and identity. Through sharp observations and encounters, the narrative explores the transformative power of curiosity, humility, and the complexities of empathy when confronted with Indigenous life and the natural world. With a modernist sensibility that blends humor, critique, and lyrical wonder, these short texts invite readers to question the very act of seeing and learning.
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paperback
Penguin Publishing Group
Published Jan 1, 2023
225 pages
ISBN: 9780143137351
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First Published
2023
Language
por
Translation
From: por
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