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Captains of the sands captures the rich culture, vivid emotions, and wild landscape of bahia with penetrating authenticity and brilliantly displays the genius of brazils most acclaimed author. Capitaes da areia is a brazilian novel written by jorge amado in 1937 the novel tells of a gang of one hundred street children. Captains of the sand, or in its original, capitaes da areia, is a beautifully told story of my home town, jorge amados home town, salvador da bahia. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the hour of the star second edition. Captains of the sands penguin classics kindle edition by amado, jorge, toibin, colm, rabassa, gregory.
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