A dead man narrates his pointless life with digressions; Machado's 1881 modernism.
Street children in 1930s Salvador; Jorge Amado's most loved.
Did Capitu betray Bentinho? Machado de Assis leaves the reader to decide; Brazil's classic.
Max in Sao Paulo, bald and drunk, in Rockstar's slow-motion finale.
Amazonian ceremonial headdresses woven from human hair and macaw feathers, in the Mato Grosso museums.
A whitewashed colonial port between the rainforest and the sea, with schooner trips to the islands.
Forty-two beaches on one island, the surfing capital of Brazil and Azorean fishing villages.
The model city of parks and bus lanes, the glass Botanical Garden and the train to the coast.
Thirteen baroque churches of the gold rush on steep cobbled hills, with Aleijadinho’s sculptures.
Two hundred and seventy-five waterfalls on the Argentina–Brazil border, with walkways to the lip of the Devil’s Throat.
Venture into the world's greatest rainforest.
Two-stage cable car to Rio’s granite icon and its harbour-wide views.
White dune fields that fill with turquoise rain lagoons every wet season.
The world’s largest tropical wetland — the best place in South America to spot jaguars.
Brazil's cachaça, lime and sugar cocktail.
Brazil's hearty black-bean and pork stew.
Coelho's fable of a shepherd chasing his dream (1988).
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