{ "item_title" : "Letters from Brazil V", "item_author" : [" Mark J. Curran "], "item_description" : "Mark Curran is a retired professor from Arizona State University where he worked from 1968 to 2011. He taught Spanish and Portuguese and their respective cultures. His research specialty was Brazil and its popular literature in verse or the Literatura de Cordel, and he has published many articles in research reviews and now some fourteen books related to the Cordel in Brazil, the United States and Spain. Other books done during retirement are of either an autobiographic nature - The Farm or Coming of Age with the Jesuits - or reflect classes taught at ASU on Luso-Brazilian Civilization, Latin American Civilization or Spanish Civilization. The latter are in the series Stories I Told My Students: books on Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Portugal and Spain. Letters from Brazil I, II, III, IV and V is an experiment combining reporting and fiction. A Professor Takes to the Sea I and II is a chronicle of a retirement adventure with Lindblad Expeditions - National Geographic Explorer. Rural Odyssey - Living Can Be Dangerous is The Farm largely made fiction. A Rural Odyssey II - Abilene - Digging Deeper and Rural Odyssey III Dreams Fulfilled and Back to Abilene are a continuation of Rural Odyssey. Around Brazil on the 'International Traveler' - A Fictional Panegyric tells of an expedition in better and happier times in Brazil, but now in fiction. The author presents a continued expedition in fiction Pre - Columbian Mexico - Plans, Pitfalls and Perils. Yet another is Portugal and Spain on the 'International Adventurer.' The Collection is a bibliography of primary and secondary works on the Literatura de Cordel in Curran's collection. 180 The Master of the Literatura de Cordel - Leandro Gomes de Barros. A Bilingual Anthology of Selected Works is a return to the topic of the Dissertation in 1968. Adventure Travel in Guatemala - The Maya Heritage is a return to the A.T. series, the 4th preceded by books on Brazil, Mexico, Portugal and Spain. Two By Mark J. Curran combines two shorter narratives on the author's life, ASU Days and The Guitars - A Music Odyssey. Rural Odyssey IV - Parallels. Abilene, Cowboys and Cordel is cultural, historic fiction in the Rural Odyssey Series. The Writing and Publishing Journey is a capstone volume and catalogue of all of Curran's books to the present with color images of all the covers and short summaries of the genesis of the books. Adventure Travel in Colombia - Moments of Mayhem continues the Adventure Travel Series. And now, Adventure Travel - A New Partnership - The Royal Princess. Rural Odyssey V Trouble in a Kansas Riverside Town With The Ballad of the Smoky Hill River Rambler is the newest in the series. And in 2024 Brazil's 'Literatura de Cordel' - The Broadside Engravings of Mexico's JosGuadalupe Posada KDP Publishing.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/69/871/819/1698718195_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "40.99", "online_price" : "40.99", "our_price" : "40.99", "club_price" : "40.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

Overview

Customers Also Bought

Details