Lampion and his Bandits (Literature of the Cordel in Brazil) by Augustus Young

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Lampion and his Bandits (Literature of the Cordel in Brazil) by Augustus Young

Augustus Young was born in Cork in 1943. Four of his other books have been published with Menard.

Eric Hobsbawm writes of the present volume: 'Young's new book has two considerable merits. It introduces English readers to the world of the traditional bandits of the Brazilian North-East, and at the same time to the world of the ballad-singers and the public which has kept their memory alive to this day. It also provides English versions of these compositions. North-East Brazil os far away but the predicament of the poor is universal, as the readers of these ballads will discover.'

Translated and introduced by Augustus Young

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