Rebellion in the Backlands Author:Euclides da Cunha, Samuel Putnam (Translator) Euclides da Cunha's classic account of the brutal campaigns against religious mystic Antonio Conselheiro has been called the Bible of Brazilian nationality. — Euclides da Cunha went on the campaigns against Conselheiro as a journalist and what he returned with and published in 1902 is still unsurpassed in Latin American literature. Cunha is a... more » talent as grand, spacious, entangled with knowledge, curiosity, and bafflement as the country itself. On every page there is a heart of idea, speculation, dramatic observation that tells of a creative mission undertaken, the identity of the nation, and also the creation of a pure and eloquent prose style.« less