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History flows on
Continuing to follow the course of history along the SΓ£o Francisco river in Brazil
In 1867, explorer Richard Burton canoed the length of the previously uncharted SΓ£o Francisco River in Brazil scouting for the British empire. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Brazilian journalist Paulo Cabral retraces the route, recording his own 21st-century impressions of life there.
Part two: from a 19th-century hide-out of runaway slaves in Bom Jesus del Lapa to a tropical fruit paradise in Petrolina.
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