num_pages: 284
description: Offers a personal look at the people, poverty, beauty, and passion of South America by an expatriate American who left his farm in Ecuador at the age of sixty-three to embark on a journey through Brazil on the Amazon River.
language: English
title: The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Rivers
titlecomplete: The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Rivers (A Graywolf Memoir)
genres: Nonfiction, Travel, Memoir, Brazil
ratings_count: 143
publisher: Graywolf Press