Blogs in January 1970

A Death in Brazil (A Book of Omissions) 1st January 1970

This book comes in three tranches – Robb’s person experience in Brazil which is certainly a rollercoaster experience at times but also explore culture, food and language. The second is the history of Brazil from it’s Portugues colonisation (and...

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Midnight in Sicily 1st January 1970

A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy’s legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime...

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Street Fight in Naples (A City’s Unseen History) 1st January 1970

Naples is always a shock, flaunting beauty and squalor like nowhere else. Naples is the only city in Europe whose ancient past still lives in its irrepressible people. Their ancestors came from all over the early Mediterranean to the...

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A Death in Brazil 1st January 1970

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...

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