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Book SynopsisHow migrants from Quebec ended up stranded on São Paulo’s coffee plantations in the 1890s.
Trade Review"A fascinating study of the ethnic and social history of late nineteenth-century Quebec and what drove people to migrate, as well as a significant and welcome addition to the social history of free labour and the coffee plantation system in São Paulo." Oliver Marshall, King's College London and the author of English, Irish, and Irish-American Pioneer Settlers in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
"This little-known story deserves to be told and John Zucchi's hypothesis of 'mad flight' is intriguing and innovative in the Canadian context." Yves Frenette, Université de Saint-Boniface
"John Zucchi has unearthed the fascinating story of a group of almost 500 Canadians (or residents of Canada) who decided in 1896 to accept recruiters' offers to emigrate as agricultural workers to the state of São Paulo, Brazil ... Revealing a mostly forgotten link between Canada and Brazil, Mad Flight is of immense value." Canadian Historical Review
