Author Releases 'The Rivers of Life: A Mother's Take on History'

Johanna S. P. Ferreira asks, "Is history circular or linear? Could we have lived through other phases very similar to the ones we are living in today? If so, what would they be?" In her book titled "The Rivers of Life: A Mother's Take on History" (published by Balboa Press), Ferreira speaks in a colloquial dialogue as a mother and her children talk about historical characters and events that have marked humanity. For more details about the book, please visit https://www.amazon.com/Rivers-Life-Mother%C2%92s-Take-History/dp/1504398157.

The book talks about the beauty of the Native American people, the African people and the European discovers as they arrived in Brazil in 1500. It also talks about a theory Ferreira developed which states what could have been in the collective subconscious at the time of the arrivals, which caused the explorers to massacre the Native Americans. It seeks to interconnect Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas in an attempt to waken up the people about the dangers of climate change, and how "if we do not clear our subconscious and our need to persist with the use of oil, we will destroy our habitat." It seeks to unite Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas through a series of facts that show "how we are one world and how sadly, if we do not wake up fast enough, we can be on our way to destroying the world."

"If you want peace in the world and to have different cultures and our natural habitat respected, you may look at this book as a source for those subjects," Ferreira says. "It also talks about the beauty of the Native Americans, the Africans, Asians and the European people. How each one of these groups has tremendous qualities that made them special. It teaches about a time when Christians and Muslims got along well, it talks about the importance of preserving our habitat; it tries to show a beautiful world where different cultures are respected. It also teaches how the Jews and Muslims contributed to the knowledge of the world and how what they created allowed the European discoverers to arrive here in the Americas in 1492 and circumnavigate the world. It connects different facts of a variety of cultures in an attempt to explain how beautiful these different cultures are. It talks about the need of forgiveness instead of revenge. It shows that the destruction that took place in the Americas after 1492 was what use to happen in Europe and that blinded by revenge the peaceful Native Americans were slaughtered and how this pain is still felt today."

Through the publication of "The Rivers of Life: A Mother's Take on History," Ferreira hopes to give readers a feeling of unity and yet of diversity of the many different cultures of the world. She also hopes to wake up people about the dangerous path they are traveling today.

"The Rivers of Life: A Mother's Take on History"
By Johanna S. P. Ferreira
Hardcover | 6 x 9in | 266 pages | ISBN 9781504398169
Softcover | 6 x 9in | 266 pages | ISBN 9781504398152
E-Book | 266 pages | ISBN 9781504398145
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble

About the Author
Johanna S. P. Ferreira lives in São Paulo, Brazil with her husband and two children. She graduated from Pontificia Universidade Catolica São Paulo, receiving her bachelor's degree in social sciences.

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