{"product_id":"the-apprentice-tourist-9780143137351","title":"The Apprentice Tourist","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Brazilian masterpiece, now in English for the first time: a playfully profound chronicle of an urban sophisticate's misadventures in the Amazon \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"My life's done a somersault,\" wrote Mário de Andrade in a letter, on the verge of taking a leap. After years of dreaming about Amazonia, and almost fifty years before Bruce Chatwin ventured into one of the most remote regions of South America in \u003ci\u003eIn Patagonia\u003c\/i\u003e, Andrade, the queer mulatto \"pope\" of Brazilian modernism and author of the epic novel \u003ci\u003eMacunaíma\u003c\/i\u003e, finally embarks on a three-month steamboat voyage up the great river and into one of the most dangerous and breathtakingly beautiful corners of the world. Rife with shrewd observations and sparkling wit, and featuring more than a dozen photographs, \u003ci\u003eThe Apprentice Tourist \u003c\/i\u003enot only offers an awed and awe-inspiring fish-out-of-water account of the Indigenous peoples and now-endangered landscapes of Brazil that he encounters (and, comically, sometimes fails to reach), but also traces his internal metamorphosis: The trip prompts him to rethink his ingrained Eurocentrism, challenges his received narratives about the Amazon, and alters the way he understands his motherland and the vast diversity of cultures found within it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143137351\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.75h x 5.06w x 0.56d","brand":"M\u0026#225;rio de Andrade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42729509060789,"sku":"9780143137351","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b2001060-cba4-4874-83dc-e0869eabf8e5.jpg?v=1675802909","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-apprentice-tourist-9780143137351","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}