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 sluminfected 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. The book includes photographs taken along the Estrada Real.
- ISBN10 0897335309
- ISBN13 9780897335300
- Publish Date 30 August 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 November 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Academy Chicago Publishers
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 226
- Language English