Hugh Thomson

Living with the Xingu in deepest Amazonia

The Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum moves from São Paulo to ‘reforest’ herself in the Amazon, and slowly gains the trust of a wary, isolated tribal people

Eliane Brum in the Amazon. [Azul Serra] 
issue 11 March 2023

  • Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Centre of the Earth

    Eliane Brum, translated by Diane Whitty

    Indigo Press, pp. 420, £12

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