The devil to pay in the Backlands.
Subtitle: "The Devil in the street, in the middle of the whirlwind."
By: Translated from the Portuguese by James L. Taylor and Harriet de Onis.
Edition: [1st American ed.]
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1963
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; por
Number of pages: 494
Description: Lively reminiscences of bandit warfare in the sertao, the still primitive Brazilian back country, told by a wise, retired outlaw chief.
Notes: "Originally published in Portuguese ... as Grande sertão: veredas in l956.