THE MATTO GROSSO
A ROMANTIC REGION “Brazilian El Dorado.” By J. R. de sa Carvalho. Edited by C. R. Enock, F.R.G.S. Blackie. 7s 6cl. The' Matto Grosso, that wild and inhospitable centre of Brazil, still remains one of the richest yet leastknown spots in the world. Mr Carvalho, a Brazilian journalist, has a remarkable knowledge of the region, and in “Brazilian El Dorado” he traverses its romantic history from the time of the Jesuit missions, and their destruction by the Spanish colonists. The fate of Colonel Fawcett’s expedition is treated at length. In 1925 Fawcett, with his son and another white man, set out to investigate the stories of hidden civilisations. Nothing more was heard of him, although rumour constantly maintains that the explorers are alive in one of the forgotten cities. The tragic story of another explorer, Albert C. Winton, who set out to trace Fawcett, is also recounted. The author is'a romantic, and very much in love with his own country. T Te is at times fantastic, as when he theorises on lost Atlantis, but his book is an intensely interesting account of this remote section of the South American continent E. A. A.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23707, 14 January 1939, Page 4
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