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Henry Koster
b. 1793
An English traveler and plantation owner whose vivid early-1800s writing opened a window onto Brazil, he is remembered for firsthand accounts of the country’s landscapes, daily life, and slavery. His work carries the energy of someone who wrote from direct experience and died young.
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Travels in Brazil
by Henry Koster
About the author
Born around 1793, Henry Koster was an English author, explorer, and coffee-grower who spent much of his short adult life in Brazil. He was also known in Portuguese as Henrique da Costa, and his books drew on extensive travel in Pernambuco and nearby regions.
Koster is best known for Travels in Brazil and for writing about slavery and Brazilian society in the early nineteenth century. His observations made his work valuable both as travel writing and as a record of social conditions at the time.
He died in 1820, still in his twenties. No clearly suitable portrait image could be confirmed from the sources reviewed, so a profile image is not included here.