From John Warfield Simpson, author of Yearning for the Land: A Search for the Importance of Place

“Writing with a passion and point-of-view reminiscent of her famous father, Louis Bromfield, Ellen Bromfield Geld describes from her firsthand experience the rapid and at times frightening transformation of Brazil’s rural and wild landscapes over the past fifty years. Along the way, she introduces a fascinating cast of characters—rich and poor, powerful and powerless, wise and misguided—involved in this incredible spectacle. View from the Fazenda recalls our own rush to ‘civilize’ the American wilderness, and questions the social, spiritual, and environmental costs of such ‘progress’.”

John Warfield Simpson