BRAZILIANS AND THEIR COUNTRY

“The purpose of this book is to present a somewhat comprehensive idea of the life and work of the presentday Brazilians. As no people can be known without a knowledge of the land in which they dwell, and also of the historical sources from which they have drawn their traditions and customs, attention has beem given to the character of the largest of the South American Republics, and to the debt that Brazil owes to Europe, especially to Portugal, for its growth and development. [...].”
Edição ilustrada em folhas impressas à parte com dezenas de reproduções fotográficas e um mapa em folha desdobrável intitulado «Brazil and Guiana and Eastern part of Bolivia».
Capítulos: Mental Hospitality; Brazilian Traits; Portugal and Brazil; The Brazilian Empire; The Orientalism of Brazil; Republican Government; A Leviathan Country; Education; Brazilian Home Life; The Triumph of the Engineer; Seeing Rio de Janeiro by Tramway; Electric Energy transforming Brazil; The Racial melting pot; In the Land of the Paulistas; The Awakening of Southern Brazil; Trade and Transformation; Outdoor Sports and Lotteries; Rio de Janeiro, City of Enchantment; Bahia, Old and Bizarre; Paranagua; Pernambuco and Central Brazil; Pará and the Rubber workers of the Amazon; The Brazilian Indian; Languages, Libraries and Literature; Brazil’s Army and Navy; The Latin American view of North Americans; The Newspaper as an International Medium; Brazil’s to-morrow.