Realities of Images: Imperial Brazil and the Great Drought, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 91, Part 1) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780871699114)

In Feb. 1877, a letter from the county council of Telha, a town of 600 people located in the Serra da Mattos in Brazil reported that people were dying from starvation. The previous year's rainy season had been sparse, and the harvest, poor. Now, this season's rains still had not appeared. This was the Great Drought -- three years of failed rains enshrined in Brazilian memory as the worst drought ever to hit Brazil's northeast. Drought had visited the region throughout its history, with the earliest recorded occurrences dating back to the 16th century. The failure of rains in 1877 was devastating, for it caught the provinces of the north totally unprepared. The specter of periodic droughts producing dislocation and death continues to haunt the region.

Author: Gerald Greenfield
ISBN-10: 0871699117
ISBN-13: 9780871699114
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2001
Pages: 147
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.44d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2002 pg. 127