IF YOU’VE ever looked at the url line while buying a book on , you may have noticed that the word “obidos” appears in it. It functions as an identifier in the website’s sales system, but there’s more to the name than that: 脫bidos is also a town on the real-world Amazon. It can hardly be coincidence, so the folks at must be indulging in a clever play on words.
What’s so special about this town? Situated between Manaus at the heart of the Amazon rainforest and the seaport city of Bel茅m, 脫bidos is small and sleepy today, but in the late 18th and early…
