Panorama cultural da amazônia

Anyone who reads this work on the Amazon region will find himself doubly rewarded for the time that he spends on it. It is first-rate reading because of its literary quality, and it is solidly informative because the author knows what he is writing about. He is gifted with the ability to compress his knowledge into an amazing small space, and then utilize that space with an almost artistic ability that holds the reader’s attention and demands his admiration. In spite of its brevity, the result is a work that should appeal to a wide reading public. Although Peregrino Junior wrote this several-sided essay largely from an over-all, generalized approach, reading it will reward interested scholars in any of the social sciences in particular, and anyone who enjoys good writing in general. Even when the reader anticipates the contents of the author’s comments, the highly lucid presentations of his thoughts and the word imagery that he uses make reading such comments pleasurable and profitable. He closes by listing many of the outstanding authors and works on the Amazon region, and his brief critiques of each are a useful bonus for the reader. This work may not offer new information for specialists on the region, but it will repay anyone who reads it with either pleasure or deeper understanding—or both. It is a little gem.