Title: What a way to put down a great culture!
Product review: I was very dissapointed on the tone Mr. Cawthorne writes about a great southamerican culture. To get the whole picture and the background of the historical events I would recommend the readers to reach for sources from paraguayan writers or even the full version of Cawthorne's sources: Mastermann's Seven Eventful Years In Paraguay, and Burton's Letters from the Battelfields of Paraguay. Mr. Cawthorne just highlighted the worst, made ancient aboriginal rituals look like "ridiculous" practices and portraited the characters look as if they were broght from hell. It is a pity to give oneself the power to make a judgement on such a series of complicated events and give a distorted image of a whole generation of a prosperous culture which faced inevitable destruction. I hope readers can go beyond this soap opera reading and get true historical facts before getting a distorted picture of reality.
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