Henry Ford built a Midwestern-style town in the Amazon

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it is an interesting story. Greg Grandin wrote a book about it that was a good read.

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Came here for this, and to also mention the related and fantastic album of the same name by the late Jóhann Jóhannsson.

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Fordlandia is profoundly epic. It still kills me that we won’t experience Villenueve’s Dune without Jóhannsson’s music. Denis and Jóhann were always in perfect synch.

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