The colorful story of one couple's journey across the world to build their dream home in the heart of the Amazon 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. 
Where the Road Ends is their story of building a house, a rainforest research center, and a new dream. Since then, they've learned how to work with the trees, the animals, the weather, the local community, and each other. Their technology now ranges from the oxcart to the Internet, and in 2000 they opened a rainforest conservation and research center that is visited by foreign researchers and Brazilian school children. 
From meeting their resident cowboy, Albertinho, to beheading snakes, to chauffeuring a local wedding―the adventures described here are unparalleled. This delightful memoir takes the armchair traveler deep into another world where matters of providing food and shelter can never be taken for granted. Binka and Robin have 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. 
"A good read for armchair travelers." - Kirkus Reviews

Where the Road Ends: A Home in the Brazilian Rainforest

Biographies & Memoirs

Le Breton, Binka

Professionals & Academics

Thomas Dunne Books

In 1966, Sister Dorothy Stang went to Brazil as a missionary, and in 1982 she moved to a small town in the Amazon to work with an organization to protect poor farmers and their land from loggers and land-developers who stop at nothing—including murder—in pursuit of profits. After testifying at a government panel investigating illegal incursions into protected areas, Sister Dorothy was denounced as a “terrorist” by powerful companies and began receiving death threats. Refusing to be intimidated, she continued her work—until two gunmen shot her six times on a rural Amazon road. THE GREATEST GIFT is the first biography of this extraordinary woman and her mission. Written by a mainstream journalist who has spent many years in Brazil, it exposes the entrenched collusion between government officials and commercial interests and celebrates the profound courage of Sister Dorothy and others fighting to protect the Amazon jungles and the people eking out a life there. Inspired by deep religious conviction, Dorothy Stang gave of herself generously. A book that will resonate with readers of Sister Helen Prejean’s Dead Man Walking, THE GREATEST GIFT presents not only the story of Sister Dorothy’s tragic death, but the powerful and beautiful lessons of her life.

The Greatest Gift: The Courageous Life and Martyrdom of Sister Dorothy Stang

Doubleday Religion

Tracing the circumstances surrounding the murder of an Afro-Brazilian priest, the author captures a unique grass roots view of the Brazilian land wars with its panoply of social forces.

A Land to Die for

Arts & Photography

Clarity Press

* Stories told by indigenous peoples of the Amazon, including Indians, rubber tappers, miners, loggers, and ranchers * Suggests social and political reforms that could sustain the lives of rain forest dwellers and the planet * Written by an activist who set out by bus, truck, boat, and on foot to live with rich and poor inhabitants of Brazil Follow Le Breton through one of the Earth’s last great frontiers--the Brazilian Amazon--and meet the people whose voices have too seldom been heard. Voices from the Amazon reveals the complexity of daily life in remote forest settlements and gritty river towns, uncovering the truth about development in the Amazon.

Voices from the Amazon (Kumarian Press Books for a World That Works)

Travel

Kumarian Press

Trapped: Modern-Day Slavery in the Brazilian Amazon

* Winner of the 2004 Harry Chapin Media Judges Award from World Hunger Year * A vivid, highly readable book by a resident of Brazil who set off by bus and motorbike to unearth the realities of this hidden trade and expose them to the world The illegal trade in people is surpassed in scale only by that in drugs and arms. In huge ranches deep in the Amazon, migrant workers are enmeshed in a web of debt, deceit, and cruelty -- trapped in the illegal trade in humans. Trapped documents the lives of these workers, allowing them to tell their own stories. Le Breton also talks with those who benefit from this injustice, as well as those fighting against it, and offers suggestions on how it can be consigned to history.

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

History

Americas

* Winner of the 2004 Harry Chapin Media Judges Award from World Hunger Year* A vivid, highly readable book by a resident of Brazil who set off by bus and motorbike to unearth the realities of this hidden trade and expose them to the worldThe illegal trade in people is surpassed in scale only by that in drugs and arms. In huge ranches deep in the Amazon, migrant workers are enmeshed in a web of debt, deceit, and cruelty -- trapped in the illegal trade in humans.Trapped documents the lives of these workers, allowing them to tell their own stories. Le Breton also talks with those who benefit from this injustice, as well as those fighting against it, and offers suggestions on how it can be consigned to history.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Latin America Bureau

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Where the Road Ends: A Home in the Brazilian Rainforest

The Greatest Gift: The Courageous Life and Martyrdom of Sister Dorothy Stang

A Land to Die for

Voices from the Amazon (Kumarian Press Books for a World That Works)

Trapped: Modern-Day Slavery in the Brazilian Amazon

Trapped: Modern-Day Slavery in the Brazilian Amazon

Trapped: Modern-Day Slavery in the Brazilian Amazon