MIDNIGHT IN SICILY

Travel

Peter Robb

Travel Writing

Vintage

Delving into Brazil's baroque past, Peter Robb writes about its history of slavery and the richly multicultural but disturbed society that was left in its wake when the practice was abolished in the late nineteenth century. Even today, Brazil is a nation of almost unimaginable distance between its wealthy and its poor, a place of extraordinary levels of crime and violence. It is also one of the most beautiful and seductive places on earth. Using the art, food and the books of its great nineteenth-century writer, Machado de Assis, Robb takes us on a journey into a world like Conrad's "Nostromo". A world so absurdly dramatic, like the current president Lula's fight for power, that it could have come from one of the country's immensely popular TV soap operas, a world where resolution is often only provided by death. Like all the best travel writing, "A Death in Brazil" immerses you deep into the heart of a fascinating country.

A Death in Brazil

History

Americas

Bloomsbury Paperbacks

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 2000 Henry Holt jumbo trade paperback. Peter Robb (Midnight in Sicily: On Art, Food, History, Travel and la Cosa Nostra). A bold, fresh biography of the world's first modern painter and his wild and tempestuous life. A provocation to a culture in a state of siege.

The Man Who Became Caravaggio

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Holt New Y

Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India

Kaoru Sugihara

Haruka Yanagisawa

Taylor&Francis

M is the name of an enigma. In his short and violent life, Michaelangelo Merisi, from Caravaggio, changed art for ever. In the process he laid bare his own sexual longing and the brutal realities of his life with shocking frankness. Like no painter before him and few since, M the man appears in his art. As a book about art and life and how they connect, there has never been anything quite like it.

M: The Caravaggio Enigma

Bloomsbury UK

Street Fight in Naples: A City's Unseen History

Europe

Allen& Unwin

Street Fight in Naples

M: a Biography of Caravaggio

Duffy and Snellgrove

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Duffy & Snellgrove

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