Brazil. A Land of the Future By Stefan Zweig, Translated by Lowell A. Bangerter

Based upon his own impressions of Brazil and personal experiences there, the author portrays a vast, inviting, fertile land with seemingly endless resources; a history devoid of major wars, in which all conflicts are resolved in a spirit of conciliation; the type of society for which he himself longed, composed of multi-national elements that combine to form a harmonious whole free of racial tensions, strife, and destructive tendencies; an almost utopian place that seems to stand apart from the ills of the modern world while providing refuge from its hostility and hope that mankind can find a more peaceful direction in the future.