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The World Is Burning: Murder in the Rain Forest [Hardcover]

Alex Shoumatoff (Author)


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August 1990
The story of Chico Mendes, self-taught environmentalist and leader of a people fighting to save their way of life in the rainforest, who was gunned down outside his home in Brazil's remote state of Acre in late 1988.

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Of the many disasters witnessed by the 20th century , the ongoing destruction of the Amazon rain forest may prove to be the most calamitous for humankind. In this engrossing analysis, excerpts of which appeared in Vanity Fair , Shoumatoff weaves an intricate web of botany, history, economics, and ecology around the 1988 murder of ecomartyr Chico Mendes also the subject of Andrew C. Revkin's The Burning Season ( LJ 6/1/90) and Adrian Cowell's forthcoming The Decade of Destruction from Holt.--Ed.. This is a tragic tale of cruelty, destruction, and villainy on an epic scale, witnessed firsthand in the Amazon by the author, who also interviewed many of the protagonists of this appalling drama. Not surprisingly, movie rights to this story have been acquired by Robert Redford and Steven Spielberg. Read this book first.-- Ian Wallace, Agriculture Canada Lib., St.
Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Little Brown & Co (T); 1st edition (August 1990)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0316787396
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316787390
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,778,546 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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