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When E.J. Levy arrived in northern Brazil on the fellowship from Yale at age 21, she was expecting to assist in saving the Amazon rain forest; she didn't realize she'd soon have to save herself. Amazons: A Love Tale recounts an idealistic young woman's coming old against the setting of the spectacular rain forest and amazing city of Salvador. This elegant and sharp-eyed memoir explores the interaction of the many makes fueling deforestation - examining the ecological, economical, social, and religious costs of ill-conceived development - and the ones that shape young women's growing up. Delivered to Salvador (categorised as the "soul of Brazil" because of its wealthy Afro-Brazilian culture), a city far from the rain forest, Levy befriends two young Brazilians - Nel, a brilliant economics student who's estranged from her family for secret reasons, and Isa, a stunning gold digger. If the university closes anticipated to a punch, do not require can guess what will come of their ambitions. Levy's span of analysis changes: she occupies capoeira, enters baking school (making foods praised in Brazilian books as almost wonderful elixirs), increases fluency in Portuguese and the means of block life, and learns other, more agonizing lessons - she actually is raped, and her best friend becomes a prostitute. When Levy finally grows to the Amazon, her courage - and her safety - are further tested: on the barefoot hike through the jungle one night to acquire tadpoles, she encounters fist-sized spiders, swimming snakes, and crocodiles. When allergy symptoms to the antimalarial drugs designed to protect her prove life-threatening, she discovers that sometimes the greatest menace we face is ourselves. Eventually, her are a "cartographer of loss," charting deforestation, leads her to understand that our relationships to nature also to our bodies are linked, that we must transcend the logic of commodification if we are to save both wilderness and ourselves. The Amazon is a perennially fascinating subject, alluring and frightening, a site of cultural projection and commercial ambition, of fantasies and violence. Amazons provides an intimate check out urgent global issues that affect us all, like the too - often abstract question of rain forest loss. Levy illuminates the burgeoning sex-tourism trade in Brazil, renewed environmental threats, global warming, and the results of putting a cost on nature. Accounts of the region have frequently been by and about men; Amazons offers a fresh approach, interweaving a romantic feminist narrative with an immediate ecological one. In the tradition of Terry Tempest Williams, this timely, engaging, and eloquent memoir will charm to those enthusiastic about literary nonfiction, travel writing, and women's and environmental issues.
