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Published by Doubleday, Doran
and Company Inc, copyright New York 1940, stated as First Edition. Having
115 pages, bound in cloth 5.5 by
8.75 inch hard covers, still in original dust jacket (with $2.00
price intact) showing minor
exterior wear and soiling, now protected within clear plastic wrapper,
otherwise binding still internally tight and strong, contents clean, and overall in good
to very good condition.
(text taken from dust
jacket...)
PARTICULARLY Interesting now, with American eyes focused on the southern hemisphere, is this volume of sketches not previously available in this country in book form.
BRAZILIAN SKETCHES contains Rudyard Kipling's impressions, vivid, sharp and intuitive, of Brazil, largest and most diverse of the southern republics, and of the Brazilian people. The mind that observed so keenly the life of Asia and the Empire loses nothing of its power when trained on one of the greatest nations of the New World.
The sketches, each prefaced characteristically by a keynote verse, are as follows: The Journey Out -Mr. Kipling's impressions of Brazil; Rio - an appreciation of Brazil's dream-city of shellwhite palaces; The Father of
Lightnings the story of the great "Hooded Devil" who dwells above Sao Paulo; A Snake Farm - a visit to the strangest "farm" in the world; Sao Paulo and a Coffee Estate - in which Mr. Kipling explores the heart of Old Brazil, telling the story of the coffee industry around the city of Sao Paulo; Railways and a
Two Thousand Feet Climb - a trip on a marvelous Iron Horse; A World Apart - an interpretative picture of the Brazilian people, their history, their customs and mode of living.
This book is inevitably a collector's item, but it is much more: a joy to read, a key to better understanding of our Pan-American neighbors.
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