Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City Reviews
Posted On September 7, 2010
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City
The stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the AmazonIn 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project rapidly evolved into a more ambitious bid to export America itself, along with its golf courses, ice-cream shops, bandstands, indoor plumbing, and Model Ts rolling down broad streets. Fordlandia, as the se
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