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Author
Series
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
1999, ©1965
Language
English
Description
A peasant family, driven by the drought, walks to exhaustion through an arid land. As they shelter at a deserted ranch, the drought is broken and they linger, tending cattle for the absentee ranch owner, until the onset of another drought forces them to move on, homeless wanderers again. Yet, like the desert plants that defeat all rigors of wind and weather, the family maintains its will to survive in the harsh and solitary land. Intimately acquainted...
Author
Series
Atmospheric science paper volume no. 224
Publisher
Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
This study represents an attempt to come to grips with the meteorological conditions associated with the Northeast region individual precipitation patterns.
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Run for It--a starkly stunning graphic novel by internationally acclaimed illustrator Marcelo d'Salete--is one of the first literary and artistic efforts to confront Brazil's hidden history of slavery. Seen through the eyes of its victims, Run for It tells of ordinary slaves who rebel against their masters. Run for It's vivid illustrations and magical realism engage the reader's poetic imagination through stories of individual suffering caused by...
8) The Mission
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
Epic adventure, set in the Amazon, about a Spanish Jesuit priest and a military man who unite to protect an Indian tribe from pro-slavery Portugal, also expanding its colonial empire to 18th century Brazil.
9) Daytripper
Author
Publisher
Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Presents key moments in the life of Brás de Oliva Domingos, a Brazilian writer and sometime journalist, and the son of a prominent author, as if each episode would turn out to be the day in which he was about to die.