Passage Through El Dorado: Traveling the World's Last Great Wilderness
- ISBN-10
- 038071499X
- ISBN-13
- 9780380714995
- Category
- South America
- Pages
- 312
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991-08
- Publisher
- Avon Books
- Author
- Jonathan Kandell
Description
João Antonio Pereira , a forty - two - year - old bulldozer operator from the northeastern state of Minas Gerais who had spent more than seventeen years as a barrageiro , pictured himself owning a small grocery store back in his ...
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- 1984
- 312 pages
- Paperback
- W. Morrow
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