Â鶹Éç

Available for over a year

In 1867, explorer Richard Burton canoed the length of the previously uncharted São Francisco River in Brazil scouting for the British empire. Â鶹Éç 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.