The Apprentice Tourist

The Apprentice TouristBy: Mrio de Andrade A Brazilian masterpiece, now in English for the first time: a playfully profound chronicle of an urban sophisticates misadventures in the Amazon A Penguin Classic My lifes done a somersault, wrote Mrio de Andrade in a letter, on the verge of taking a leap. After years of dreaming about Amazonia, and almost fifty years before Bruce Chatwin ventured into one of the most remote regions of South America in In Patagonia, Andrade, the

often unnerving

and drops everything that’s thrown to her

Issac plays in his favourite pool on the mountainside

that the world is crooked

遊戲式的圖畫書，訓練幼兒的圖像認知與對細節的記憶統合能力

is Mailer’s most perfect apprehension of the absolutely alien

Building Site is a great gift for toddlers with inquisitive fingers and minds

Then Tasha meets Alyana

through their principles and patience

Ruth has been whisked off to the lonely Rook Farm to investigate the discovery of long-buried treasure with her mother

The response has been extraordinary

the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions