Notes - The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha - page 431

2. Diacon, Stringing Together a Nation .
3. De Assis, Conselho de guerra .
4. Ibid.
5. Ferreira Gomes, “Como se deu o lamentável acontecimento” (How the unhappy event unfolded).
6. Ibid.
7. Shakespeare, Hamlet , act 5, scene 2.
8. Euclides II, letter to Ana Ribeiro de Assis, cited in de Assis, Conselho de guerra .
9. Ibid.
10. De Assis and de Andrade, Ana de Assis .
11. De Assis, Conselho de guerra .
12. Ibid.
13. Barreto, Última expedição a Canudos .
14. His works weirdly echoed those of da Cunha: a memoir of Canudos, a history of an expedition to
Mato Grosso, and various commentaries on the politics of the day. It is a measure of the prestige of the
Ribeiro, da Cunha, and de Assis families that a person of this rank would take on the scandal-plagued
child.
15. De Assis, Conselho de guerra .
16. See the anonymous piece “Pelo honra da nome.”
17. Dauat, “Vítima esquecido de Euclides da Cunha.” Cited in de Assis and de Andrade, Ana de
Assis .
18. Ibid.
19. De Assis, Um nome, uma vida, uma obra .
20. The twentieth-century history of Amazonia is covered in Hecht and Cockburn, Fate of the
Forest .
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1. Fagan and Shoobridge, “Investigation of Illegal Mahogany Logging.”
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
A Note on the Text
1. Amory, Euclides Da Cunha ; Ventura, Barreto de Santana, and Carvalho, Retrato interrompido .
2. Three of the five Amazon pieces in À margem da história had actually been published earlier in
academic journals or in newspapers.
3. Amory, Euclides Da Cunha ; da Cunha, Sousa, and Sá, The Amazon .
4. Kristal, Invisible Work .
5. Letter to Henrique Coelho Neto, Manaus, March 10, 1905.
6. I am indebted to George Lovell, William Woods, and Charles Mann for stimulating a useful dis-
cussion on questions of translation and especially the Nabokov position in Morelia, Mexico, in 2005.
Appel, Newman, and Nabokov, Nabokov ; Nabokov, Notes on Prosody .
7. Rabassa, If This Be Treason .