Publisher's Synopsis
As an itinerant preacher in the backlands of Brazil in the wake of several years of draught, famine and political upheaval, Antonio Conselheiro ("Councillor") began to amass followers to his millenarian sect and speak out against the State and the Catholic Church. This explosive combination resulted in the War of Canudos in 1895-98, when a small village of cowboys, natives, ex-slaves, women and children were besieged and massacred by the Brazilian Army. In this 1920 biography, Scottish author and adventurer R. B. Cunninghame Graham tells the story of Antonio Conselheiro, a prophet, a madman, a rebel, a miracleworker, and a key figure in Brazilian history.
