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CASTRO (Ferreira de). A SELVA: Romance. Porto. [1930]. - CASTRO (Ferreira de) A SELVA: Romance . Porto: Livraria Civilização, [1930]. 334, [2] pp.; 190 mm. First edition, published in May 1930, with a cover by Bernardo Marques. *The Jungle* is Ferreira de Castro's most celebrated and internationally disseminated novel, and one of the key works of 20th-century Portuguese literature. Written in 1929 in just eight months, the novel narrates the life and adventures of rubber tappers in the Amazon rainforest, based on the author's own experience when, at the age of twelve, he emigrated to Brazil and worked on a rubber plantation in the Amazon. The autobiographical dimension is acknowledged by the author himself in the text ”A Short History of the Jungle, ” published in commemorative editions. The work enjoyed immediate success and translations into more than a dozen languages, including French, translated by Blaise Cendrars. Rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate