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Amazon Journal: Dispatches from a Vanishing Frontier
by O'Connor, Geoffrey
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- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0525941134
- ISBN 13
- 9780525941132
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Synopsis
A work of literary nonfiction blending reportage, history, anthropology, and personal memoir, Amazon Journal is a unique and critical look at how cultural differences in the Amazon have resulted in incidents ranging from comic misunderstandings to blatant exploitation, environmental disaster, and even genocide. Beginning by revisiting the period in the late 80's when the "save the rainforest" campaign, the indigenous rights movement, and the assassination of Chico Mendes became the focus of a media storm, O'Connor stuck with his story long enough to tell us what happened when the world turned its attention elsewhere. Peopled by a colorful cast of real-life characters, O'Connor's startling narrative is a journey into a contemporary heart of darkness, a compelling and compassionate look at a vanishing people, and a blistering account of the forces of destruction, both human and environmental, at work within the greatest forest on earth.
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- Wonder Book
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- W02L-00606
- Title
- Amazon Journal: Dispatches from a Vanishing Frontier
- Author
- O'Connor, Geoffrey
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 0525941134
- ISBN 13
- 9780525941132
- Publisher
- Dutton Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 1997-09-01
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