"From enormous statues and bustling cities to towering mountains and rushing waterfalls, Brazil is full of amazing sites. In this book, a kid narrator heads on a road trip to this South American nation to see all the important places--and takes curious readers along with them! Full-color photographs and illustrations draw readers into Brazil while accessible main text offer the history and geography of the country. High-interest cultural tidbits about...

"The Reckoning offers the first rounded account of the rise and fall of the Second Slavery—largescale plantation slavery in nineteenth-century Brazil, Cuba and the US South. Robin Blackburn shows how a fusion of industrial capitalism and transatlantic war and revolution turbo-charged racial oppression and the westwards expansion of the United States. Blackburn identifies the new territories, new victims and new battle cries of the Second Slavery....