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Fordlandia: The Rise And Fall Of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin

Fordlandia: The Rise And Fall Of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

Greg Grandin

432 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction business history informative slow-paced
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In 1927, Henry Ford, the founder of the famous motor company and the richest man in the world, bought a 5,000 square mile-tract of land in the Brazilian Amazon. There he was going to build a rubber plantation. To the unkempt rainforest he would br...

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