Orde MortonBorn in Winnipeg, Canada, Orde Morton was educated at the universities of Manitoba and Toronto before attending Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. In 1965 he was posted to the Canadian Embassy in Rio. Subsequent to that, he earned an Oxford Doctorate for hi thesis on Brazilian history at the time of Independence. Orde Morton has taught in the Graduate School of History at Rio's Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niteroi. He has served as president of the Brazil- Canada Chamber of Commerce and is an Honorary Citizen of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Marvelous City is his first book. Read More Read Less