ARC Book
Two Tickets to Brazil
Travel Series
There is a version of Brazil you already know — the Carnival photographs, the Christ the Redeemer postcard, the beach. And then there is the actual country: louder, warmer, more complicated, more generous, and more beautiful than any single image can hold. A country where the Amazon basin is so vast it generates its own weather. Where a rubber boom a century ago left a gilded opera house in the middle of the jungle. Where the descendants of enslaved West Africans built a culture so distinct and so alive that it turned a colonial port city into the cultural soul of an entire continent. Alex and Jamie are going to find out which version is true — and the answer, as it always is with Brazil, is both. Starting in Rio, or flying south to stand in the spray of Iguazu, or heading north into Manaus where the river is the road, or northeast to Salvador where the city's history is still being lived out loud every evening in the squares. Four starting points. Dozens of paths. One country that insists — warmly, completely, without apology — on being felt before it is understood. Choose where they begin.
