the fifth covers sports recreations, the sixth, exhibits various leisure activities, including ballets, operas and strolls along the lagoa rodrigo freitas, the seventh is dedicated to carnival, and finally the eighth tracks construction works that enabled the growth and splendor of the city today - each 32 page book also contains a poster which a  reader can remove and use at his or her leisure. 

published by companhia das letras rio de janeiro, cidade mestiça (rio de janeiro, mestizo city) by jean-baptiste debret, is an iconographic repertoire of early 19th-century rio de janeiro that depicts the everyday aspects of colonial brazil.

the book flourishes with poignant watercolor illustrations of rio's culturally diverse society and the firsthand realities of slavery, africans, and indigenous peoples under portuguese rule.