In 1989, as their mid-life crises approached, concert pianist Binka Le Breton and her husband Robin, an agricultural economist, decided to uproot themselves from their home in Washington, D.C. and start a new life in Brazil. They embarked on an adventure that many readers only dream about--transplanting
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In 1989, as their mid-life crises approached, concert pianist Binka Le Breton and her husband Robin, an agricultural economist, decided to uproot themselves from their home in Washington, D.C. and start a new life in Brazil. They embarked on an adventure that many readers only dream about--transplanting themselves in a different country and learning (often the hard way) what it takes to survive and flourish.
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Authors:
Le Breton, Binka
Statement of Responsibility:
by Binka Le Breton
Title:
Where the road ends
a home in the Brazilian rainforest : a memoir
Publisher:
New York :, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press,, 2010.
Edition:
1st ed
Characteristics:
xiii, 285 p. ;,22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Where Minas begins
Home on the range
Lords of the land
Busting the broncs in Belisário
Friends and neighbors
The piano
The casa grande
A Christmas christening
The barefoot vets
Cremating the cow
The Brazilian blues
Policemen and pistoleiros
Rain it raineth every day
The tale of the telephone
Where farm and forest meet
A woman's place
Song of Limeira
Forest angels
Oxcarts and the internet.
Summary:
In 1989, as their mid-life crises approached, concert pianist Binka Le Breton and her husband Robin, an agricultural economist, decided to uproot themselves from their home in Washington, D.C. and start a new life in Brazil. They embarked on an adventure that many readers only dream about--transplanting themselves in a different country and learning (often the hard way) what it takes to survive and flourish.
Subject Headings:
Amazon River Region Economic conditions.
Amazon River Region Social conditions.
Conservationists Biography.
Le Breton, Robin.
Le Breton, Binka.
Rural development Environmental aspects Amazon River Region.
Nature Effect of human beings on Amazon River Region.
Topical Term:
Conservationists
Rural development
Nature
LCCN:
2009047616
ISBN:
0312574053
9780312574055
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