num_pages: 344
description: Recounts the author's struggles, in company with a thirty-year-old semiliterate black Ecuadorian, against nature, history, tradition, and other men in their efforts to run a tropical farm in accordance with fair play and racial equality
language: English
title: The Farm on the River of Emeralds
titlecomplete: The Farm on the River of Emeralds
genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Travel, Adventure, Memoir
ratings_count: 88
awards: awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Washington State Book Award
publisher: Vintage