Part One -Tupiniquin | Portuguese
Part Two - Jesuit | Bandeirante
Part Three - Republicans and Sinners | Sons of the Empire
Part Four - Brazilians | Candangos | Afterword | Family Trees | Maps
Page One - Description | Table of Contents | Plot Summary
Page Three - Characters | People | Settings | Locations | Glossary | Maps | Family Trees
Brazilian journey | Salvador's one-eyed carpenter
Antonio Conselheiro | Canudos ghosts
Brazil North-East poverty and promise
Voyage on the Amazon river sea
Amazon | A walk in the rain forest cathedral
Ghosts of the Madeira-Mamoré railroad
Writing the epic novel of Brazil
Patient Anthony - The story of a Brazilian slave
What readers say about the epic of Brazil
Visions of Brazil: John Updike, John Dos Passos, Errol Lincoln Uys
Letters from the boxcar boys and girls
What life was like during the Great Depression
Hoover's "prodigal children:" Hungry times on mean streets
Civilian Conservation Corps: Saving a Lost Generation of Young Americans
Great Depression Archives - INDEX
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About the Great Depression-era photographs
James A. Michener's Covenant - Secrets of a bestseller
Assignment - "James Michener committed a scarlet literary crime"
Plotting James Michener's novel, The Covenant
Researching James Michener's novel, The CovenantResearching a historical novel - Examples from James Michener's work
Primary research for Michener's novel, The Covenant
Promised Land of South Africa - Limited or horizonless?
Writing James Michener's novel, The Covenant
Collaborating on a manuscript with James Michener
James Michener on a frontier of historical fiction
How a Boer girl's story inspired James A. Michener's work
Errol Lincoln Uys - Quick read and detailed biography
Errol Lincoln Uys - Press Clippings
Treasure hunter, Thomas Lloys-Ellis: In search of King Lobengula's millions
Boer Girl's Memories of the War
A Boer girl in the South African concentration camps - Hester Johanna Maria "Joey" Uys