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A Train through the Amazon...What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

By Stephen Kurczy

A review of the classic Amazon novel, "Mad Maria" by Márcio Souza

This article is adapted from the Fall 2015 print edition of Americas Quarterly. To subscribe, please click here

Mad Maria, by the Brazilian author Márcio Souza, is not a new book. But 35 years after its publication, this historical novel about building a railway through the Amazon feels more relevant than ever.

Brazil, Peru and China are currently studying the feasibility of building South America’s first coast-to-coast railroad, a 3,300-mile-long set of...

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