Format:
Book
Title:
Where the road ends : a home in the Brazilian rainforest : a memoir / by Binka Le Breton.
Author:
Le Breton, Binka.
Call Number:
981.064092 Le Breto
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, c2010.
Description:
xiii, 285 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
In 1989, as their mid-life crises approached, concert pianist Binka Le Breton and her husband Robin, an agricultural economist, decided to uproot themselves from their home in Washington, D.C. and start a new life in Brazil. They embarked on an adventure that many readers only dream about--transplanting themselves in a different country and learning (often the hard way) what it takes to survive and flourish.
Subjects:
Le Breton, Binka.
Le Breton, Robin.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Amazon River Region.
Rural development -- Environmental aspects -- Amazon River Region.
Conservationists -- Biography.
Amazon River Region -- Social conditions.
Amazon River Region -- Economic conditions.
Contents:
Where Minas begins -- Home on the range -- Lords of the land -- Busting the broncs in Belisário -- Friends and neighbors -- The piano -- The casa grande -- A Christmas christening -- The barefoot vets -- Cremating the cow -- The Brazilian blues -- Policemen and pistoleiros -- The rain it raineth every day -- The tale of the telephone -- Where farm and forest meet -- A woman's place -- Song of Limeira -- Forest angels -- Oxcarts and the internet.
ISBN:
9780312574055 (alk. paper)
0312574053 (alk. paper)