Article Nº 1087 Writer, journalist or scholar Vol. I · p. 624
Costa (José Simão da)
José Simão da Costa, Funchal-born writer resident in Brazil who published works on coconut cultivation and the Amazon; died 1923.
He was born in Funchal and has lived in Brazil for many years. He completed a course at a higher institute in the United States of America and is a member of the Academia Latina das Ciencias, Artes e Belas Letras of Paris and of various literary societies in Brazil. Besides contributing to various newspapers, he published Cultura intensiva do coqueiro. Seu valor economico, Rio de Janeiro, 1913, and A região Amazonica. Seu presente, passado e futuro, Rio de Janeiro, 1913. He died in Brazil in June 1923.
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- José Simão da Costa d. 1923
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