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This review is from: Into the Amazon: The Struggle for the Rain Forest (Paperback)
Well, this is the book that "The Fate of the Forest" by Hecht and Cockburn should have been. Written in 1989-90, it details the author's year-long travels in the Amazon region of Brazil. She is all over, in the real back-waters, mostly alone. How she did it, what she had to eat and drink (and often not), makes for very interesting and informative reading. She writes well in an informal friendly manner, with a wonderful eye for detail and impressions. She lets us know how she feels and what she thinks, that she cried, got mad, etc. It is an excellent first person travel book, but also a scathing indictment of Brazil's politicians, bureaucrats, landowners, just about everyone with power and money. These people have no scruples at all, killing for the greed of land, with no qualms or second thoughts. They are truly abandoned.
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Into the Amazon: The Struggle for the Rain Forest by Augusta Dwyer (Paperback - April 16, 1991)
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