A traveler recounts his visit to the unspoiled Brazilian island of lha Grande, which is like something out of Pirates of the Caribbean.
Rio de Janeiro
Bookends of Redemption: Cruising from Brazil to Portugal
Two statues transformed a skeptic into a believer, encouraged a lukewarm Lutheran into a wanna-be Catholic and turned a ho-hum transatlantic crossing into a pilgrimage. Seeing one of these monuments at the beginning of the journey and a replica at the end of the passage filled me with faith when I had almost given up …