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  • Location: Brazil

On Earth As It Is Beneath

On Earth As It Is Beneath

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Timeless: Somewhere in remote Brazil, there is a place where inmates can be rehabilitated, but never escape

  • ISBN: 978-1917260107
  • Translator: Padma Viswanathan
  • Genre: Fiction

What you need to know before your trail

On land where enslaved people were once tortured and murdered, the state built a penal colony in the wilderness. A place where inmates could be rehabilitated, but never escape. Now, decades later, the prison is winding down. But in its final days, a new horror is unleashed. Every full-moon night, the inmates are released. The warden is armed with rifles. The hunt begins. Every man plans his escape, not knowing if his end will come at the hands of a familiar face, or from the dangers lurking beyond the prison walls.

Travel Guide

Brazil’s Wilderness

This forgotten prison is built on land with a dark, traumatic history – this very land was previously a site where enslaved people were tortured and killed.

The location is cut off from the rest of the world in every which way –  the colony acts as a bleak, remote and isolated setting where the inmates are entirely cut off and from which there is no escape.

The Brazilian wilderness primarily refers to the Amazon Rainforest, the Pantanal wetlands or even the  Atlantic Forest.

BookTrail Boarding Pass: On Earth As It Is Beneath

Destination/Location: Brazil, Amazon rainforest  Author: Ana Paula Maia Departure: timeless

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