This text tell a story of genocide, European ruthlessness and Indian gullibility. In the 16th century the history of the Brazilian Indians was the history of Brazil itself. There were millions of natives living in the half of South America that is now Brazil but since its conquest the native peoples of South America have diminished and declined. In this book, Hemming - author of "The Amazon Frontier" which continues the story of the Brazilian Indians - tells the grim and tragic story of the beginning of that decline.
- ISBN10 0333631102
- ISBN13 9780333631102
- Publish Date 21 July 1995 (first published 23 March 1978)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 June 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Papermac
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 704
- Language English