As Minas de Prata: Primeira e Segunda Partes

José Martiniano de Alencar was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, orator, novelist and dramatist. He is considered to be one of the most famous and influential Brazilian Romantic novelists of the 19th century, and a major exponent of the literary tradition known as "Indianism". The Silver Mines is his great historical novel - divided into three parts, this volumes contains the first two.