Author : Glenn Alan Cheney
Release : 2015-02-01
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Journey on the Estrada Real - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Journey on the Estrada Real write by Glenn Alan Cheney. This book was released on 2015-02-01. Journey on the Estrada Real available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brazil's Estrada Real -- the Royal Road -- was constructed in 1697 to bring the gold and diamonds from the mountains of Minas Gerais to ports at Rio de Janeiro and Paraty. The road is still there, winding through the mountains, passing through villages and towns once opulent, now in decadence. Glenn Alan Cheney hiked up the road for two months to write about its history, geography, culture, and people. Life along the Estrada Real is still very much in the 19th century. Women cook meals on wood stoves. Men go about their business on horseback. Mules carry firewood and such. People will invite a stranger into the house and offer him food. Cheney's book is a unique look at the cradle of Brazilian culture. This isn't the Brazil of beaches, rain forests, and slum-infected cities. It's a place where tradition, architecture, food, music, and values go back hundreds of years. But the quiet, rural life along the Estrada Real is under assault from global culture, a concern Cheney grapples with as he makes what may be the last observations of a dying way of life.