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The gold rush taking place in the Amazon, writes documentary filmmaker Geoffrey O'Connor, already promises to yield more ore than the Klondike gold rush that took place a century ago. Yet it has been little reported, and the quest for gold has already cost thousands of lives as the Indian nations of the Amazonian rainforest are overrun. O'Connor brings us grim news, to be sure, but with flair and sometimes even pointed humor, such as when he describes rock star Sting's descent into the jungle to deliver pious sermons about the sanctity of the unbroken forest; Sting can always jet out, O'Connor notes, whereas the Indians, and most of the gold miners, have no where else to go. Anyone with an interest in the area will want to read this well-crafted and sometimes alarming book.
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This reportage flows from O'Conner's recent camera work in Brazil, which has been edited into a documentary (with the same title) released this year. Although his book is permeated with descriptions of clear-cut swathes of jungle, the biological consequences of the gold and cattle rushes in the Amazon are not O'Conner's subject; rather, it is the white-indigenous peoples' conflict, the last chapter in the epic stretching back to Columbus. Visiting villages of the Yanomami and the Kayapo, O'Conner respectfully films their prominent figures and chronicles the disease and violence that are reducing the numbers and territories of the Brazilian Indians. His information is bound to be valued once the forces of development on the Brazilian frontier--the mine entrepreneurs, the road builders, and the ranchers--prevail. The author's prose seems videographic rather than literary, but that will not deter interested readers, who will appreciate O'Conner's accounting of the reality behind the publicity images, promoted by celebrity sympathizers (Sting) and Earth Summiteers, of the Indians' beleaguered way of life. Gilbert Taylor
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The gold rush taking place in the Amazon, writes documentary filmmaker Geoffrey O'Connor, already promises to yield more ore than the Klondike gold rush that took place a century ago. Yet it has been little reported, and the quest for gold has already cost thousands of lives as the Indian nations of the Amazonian rainforest are overrun. O'Connor brings us grim news, to be sure, but with flair and sometimes even pointed humor, such as when he describes rock star Sting's descent into the jungle to deliver pious sermons about the sanctity of the unbroken forest; Sting can always jet out, O'Connor notes, whereas the Indians, and most of the gold miners, have no where else to go. Anyone with an interest in the area will want to read this well-crafted and sometimes alarming book.
From Booklist
This reportage flows from O'Conner's recent camera work in Brazil, which has been edited into a documentary (with the same title) released this year. Although his book is permeated with descriptions of clear-cut swathes of jungle, the biological consequences of the gold and cattle rushes in the Amazon are not O'Conner's subject; rather, it is the white-indigenous peoples' conflict, the last chapter in the epic stretching back to Columbus. Visiting villages of the Yanomami and the Kayapo, O'Conner respectfully films their prominent figures and chronicles the disease and violence that are reducing the numbers and territories of the Brazilian Indians. His information is bound to be valued once the forces of development on the Brazilian frontier--the mine entrepreneurs, the road builders, and the ranchers--prevail. The author's prose seems videographic rather than literary, but that will not deter interested readers, who will appreciate O'Conner's accounting of the reality behind the publicity images, promoted by celebrity sympathizers (Sting) and Earth Summiteers, of the Indians' beleaguered way of life. Gilbert Taylor
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