The scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost paradise" of Euclides da Cunha

Os sertões: the pre-Amazonian life of Euclides da Cunha

A short prelude: from Os sertões to As selvas

The unlikely protagonist

The afterlife of revolution

A quilombo called canudos

Mud-walled Jerusalem, mud-walled Troy

The scramble for the Amazon

In the times of scrambles in the land of the Amazons

Imperialisms, revolutions, and resolutions in the Caribbean Amazon

"American Amazon" colonizations and speculations

Wall street, rebels, and Rio Branco

Peru, Purús, Brazil

Euclides and the baron

As selvas: into the litigious zones

"Impressions completely new to me"

"Such is the river, such is its history"

In the realm of rubber

Argonauts of the Amazon

In hostile territory, part 1: official report of the joint boundary commission

In hostile territory, part 2: ex-party report from Da Cunha to baron Rio Branco

Cartographer at court

Return of the native

Maps, texts, and history

"Events that perhaps lacked a historian": reflections and supplements to the formal report of the Joint Survey Commission

Everyday forms of empire: the tropicalist ethnography of Euclides da Cunha

Abyss and oblivion

Killing dr. Da Cunha

Hamlet's lament

Illusions and oblivion

A note on the text: fragments, translation, and photos.