In 31 of January of the following year it only is that the North Americans had obtained to launch its first satellite, the Explorer-1, but with plus some months of delay in relation to Soviets (CLARKE, 1968; WHITE, 2003; WALNUT, 2005). Other Soviet successes still would come. In January of 1959 the not-manned sounding lead Luna-1 passed the 6,000 km of the Moon and was changedded into the first spaceship to fall in the orbit around the Sun. In the same year, in 14 of September, the Luna-2 became the first object made for the man to reach the Moon, even so has been destroyed in the impact with the ground lunar. In 4 of October the Luna-3 was launched, that became first investigates it to obtain images of the occult face of the Moon, that one that never is turned toward the Land. Each Soviet success was ovacionado for the world-wide press (CLARKE, 1968). Meanwhile, even so the United States had surpassed the Soviets in the amount of satellites launched to the space, none of its facts if equaled to the ones of the Communists.

Still in 1959 the United States had selected its first team of astronauts, in 9 of April, in a total of seven men, all egresses of the Armed Forces. The Soviet reply lode in 25 of February of the following year, when they had chosen twenty men, all pilots of the Air Force, as the first group of cosmonauts of the Soviet Union (SPACEFACTS, 2010). Although the North Americans have selected its astronauts almost one year before the Soviets will choose its cosmonauts, in 12 of April of 1961 the Soviet Union came back to surprise the world when launching on board the spaceship Vostok-1 with the young Yuri Gagarin. It became the first man to travel to the space and, to the end of one hour and stocking, having completed a return around the Land, returned in security (GREENE, 2008).

According to given biographical offered for Select the Literary one of Amazon (1966), of Prof. Lins, FranciscoXavier Galvo, as well as its Anatlio personage, came to the world in 1906, nacidade of Manicor, region of the River Wood, Amazon and, January faleceu in 1956 in the Riode. Son of cel. Sundays Hermilo Galvo and Maria Cabral de VasconcelosGalvo, made its studies in Manaus, the Gymnasium Peter II. The author entered ‘ world of letras’ . He was state deputy for Amazon in two legislatures and, poca of the Revolution of 1930, travelled for Rio De Janeiro, where if it formed emDireito and it wrote in diverse agencies of the press. There it published, in 1934, Land of Nobody.

Francisco Galvo in accordance with the SeletLiterria of Amazon of Lins Professor (1966) belonged to the movement doparnasianismo in Amazon, with the workmanship Regal Victory. The poems are loaded of romantic emotions dresses for the formaparnasiana with all the rights that the same one dictated: metric perfect and rimasricas and precious. It is in the expression of social romancista, that if perfaz the social paper deFrancisco Galvo, that stops J.M. Gomes de Almeida, in the Regionalistic Tradition in the Brazilian Romance, writes: ‘ ‘ The writers now seem maispreocupados the direct questioning of the reality of what with the renewal dalinguagem narrativa’ ‘ reality, at the same time, to offer to the social historian deacordo with Sevcenko: ' ' The positions, the emphases, critical the gifts in the obrasnos had served as guides of reference to understand and to analyze the suastendncias marcantes in its social levels of framing and its escolade valores' ' (SEVCENKO, 1999, P. 22). Therefore, Land of Nobody, foiescolhida from a long research amongst as many workmanships of the temticaextrativista in Amazon, but, for being a romance that deals with the social ehistrico of the Amazon region. finally, for terms entered in contact comalgumas people who had lived at the time of ' ' cycle of borracha' ' , especially osoriundos of last the great race of the rubber between 1942 and 1945, incentivadospelo president of the Getlio Republic Vargas.