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Brazil: the essential lives

6 figures from Brazil, from the earliest recorded to the present day.

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Wrote a novel narrated by a dead man in 1881; Brazil's greatest writer.

Eradicated yellow fever from Rio and founded Brazilian public health.

Flew the first publicly witnessed powered aircraft in Europe.

Described a disease, its parasite and its vector single-handedly.

Interior, philosophical fiction now a global cult.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed rewrote literacy teaching for the global south.