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- Abstract:
- Exploring and Travelling Three Thousand Miles Through Brazil,' from the 19th-century English traveler James W. Wells, is unique in that its author, who crossed the Brazilian sertão mostly by himself, outdoing any other traveler of the same century in Brazil, was both a technician, in the most pragmatic sense of the term, as well as an artist. As an artist, he possessed more than one skill; he did not just illustrate his texts with observational drawings of great quality; he also demonstrated his literary talent.
- ‘Três Mil Milhas Através do Brasil’, do viajante inglês do século XIX, James W. Wells, é único pelo fato de que seu autor, que cruzou o sertão brasileiro quase todo o tempo sozinho, indo mais além do que qualquer outro viajante daquele século no Brasil, era tanto um técnico, no sentido mais pragmático do termo, quanto um artista. Como artista, possuía também mais de uma habilidade, pois não apenas ilustrou seu texto com desenhos de observação de grande qualidade como demonstrou talento literário.
Citation
Ávila, Myriam,
"The literary construction of the sertão in James Wells's ‘Three Thousand Miles Through Brazil’"
(2005).
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/fn1m-9j71
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BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
...BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature (ISSN: 2526-4885), founded in 1988, publishes scholarly articles on Brazilian literature and in Comparative Literature with a focus on Brazilian literature, as well as book reviews, interviews with writers, English-language translations of Brazilian literature …