Alvidia : Um Horizonte a Mais (Portuguese) [Paperback]

Luis Peaze (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

...I couldnÂ’t put it down. It kept me sleepless. I was moved by what they both went through. And what a sense of humor. Roberto Barros, yacht designer and writer

;...among the best pieces of writing I have read by a Brazilian author...Really captures the reader's attention and interest...-- Alan Clarke, translator and agent of Paulo Coelho's books in USA

;Here he is...the man who was able to make his dream to come through. How many people does it nowadays?; --Clinica Literaria digital magazine

About the Author

I was born in Rio Grande do Sul i 1958. I was a pretty good soccer player whilhe I was teenager. I became System Analyst at age 21 and eventually migrated to marketing and advertising. Won prizes as an Ad man working between Rio de Janeiro and New York for international accounts and eventually by accident I became a manufacturing owner in USA and Australia. At certain point I gave it all up and decided I should stick with my side occupation that were writing and journalism. So I became scientific journalist, member of the Brazilian Association of Scientific Journalism, also member of the Hemingway Society and actually had translated For Whom the Bell Tolls for a major Brazilian Publisher, Record Group.

Today, 2006, I am the founder presidente of the Brazilian Coastal Institute, a not for profit non governamental organization dedicated to build awareness on coastal and marine environment. I write chronicles (my favorite literary gender) to several news papers and web sites. Ah, I am Brazilian Consul for Wooden Boat Foundation, the first Brazilian ever to exhibit at the Woodstock of wooden boats that is the Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend, because I´ve have built a replica of a Herreshoff 12, but this is another history.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Stylita; 1a edition (October 17, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 8588053012
• ISBN-13: 978-8588053014
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,695,322 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Luís Peazê (1958) was born in Canoas, RS, Brazil. His family were farmers and merchants in the Pampa Gaucho. He studied at a parochial school and eventually moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1978, where he began to make his way in the working world. In the years between 1987 and 2000 he also lived and worked in the United States and Australia before returning to Brazil. He has been everything from a Systems Analyst to an award winning Ad-Man, an entrepreneur in plastics (active lifesytle products) and a manufacturer in California and Melbourne.

Peazê is a journalist, writer, publisher and an acclaimed translator, ("For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway was one of his translations);

Peazê is listed in the Brazilian Literature Encyclopedia as writer, journalist and translator; founder (2003) and President of the Brazilian Coastal Institute, an NGO dedicated to building awareness of the coastal and marine environment; he also is a builder and enthusiast of wooden boats, the first Brazilian to exhibit at the Wooden Boat Festival (Washington, USA), for which he built a replica of a Herreshoff 12´, and he was made (2009) Consul in Brazil for the Wooden Boat Foundation & Northwest Maritime Center (USA). Peaze has worked extensively in the marine and oceanography field in Brazil, and has been awarded medals by the Brazilian Navy. His works have also been cited by academics (professors and students) in the fields of Literature, Soccer, Journalism, Medicine, Law, Environment and Oceanography.

Among his works: Alvidia - Um Horizonte a Mais (adventure); Crônico - A História da Crônica (literature gender chronicle; O Elo Perdido da Medicina (Medicine); all in Portuguese. As of 1998 he is CEO-Editor of Clinica Literaria - services & news agency Ltda. www.clinicaliteraria.com.br

Married to Helga Leal (social scientist), he has a son Lucas, born in USA, and lists among his passions good literature, boats and soccer, these two his permanent state of mind.

More about Luis Peazê www.luispeaze.com