Lawrence Bohme
ASIN: B00801EZZM
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 188
Book 8 of Lawrence's youthful adventures, 1965 to 1967. After four weeks on two oceans in an old Japanese troop ship, used to carry farmers to a new life in Brazil, Lawrence, from his tatami mat on the foredeck, sees "every night the Southern Cross swing higher and higher in the sky, as if it were calling me to the promised land of pleasure". At Jonathon's "shoe-box" studio overlooking the bay of Rio, he practices his Portuguese with the housemaid and, planning to make a book about Brazil and its baroque architecture, climbs every morning to the Gloria Church on its nearby hill, and later a monastery near the old harbour (his pen-and-inks from that time are shown in the illustrations) while by night he learns to dance the samba and the bolero in the local "gafieiras". At a church fair near their house, the young men meet two comely servant girls who take them to a black magic ...