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1 online resource (345 pages) : map |
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Title Page -- Copyrights Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Ch. 1: The Burning Season -- Ch. 2: Amazonia -- Ch. 3: Weeping Wood -- Ch. 4: Jungle Book -- Ch. 5: Coming of Age in the Rain Forest -- Ch. 6: Roads to Ruin -- Ch. 7: The Fight for the Forest -- Ch. 8: The Wild West -- Ch. 9: Joining Forces -- Ch. 10: The Greening of Chico Mendes -- Ch. 11: An Innocent Abroad -- Ch. 12: Into the Fire -- Ch. 13: The Dying Season -- Epilogue -- Afterword -- Notes -- Appendixes: Map of South America, Brazil, and the Amazon -- Appendixes: The Murder Scene |
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Appendixes: A Resource Guide -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
In this reissue of the environmental classic The Burning Season, with a new introduction by the author, Andrew Revkin artfully interweaves the moving story of Chico Mendes's struggle with the broader natural and human history of the world's largest tropical rain forest. "It became clear," writes Revkin, acclaimed science reporter for The New York Times, "that the murder was a microcosm of the larger crime: the unbridled destruction of the last great reservoir of biological diversity on Earth." In his life and untimely death, Mendes forever altered the course of developmin the Amazon, and he has since become a model for environmental campaigners everywhere |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Mendes, Chico, 1944-1988
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Mendes, Chico, 1944-1988 |
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Conservationists -- Brazil -- Biography
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Rain forest conservation -- Brazil
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Rain forest conservation -- Amazon River Region
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Deforestation -- Brazil
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Deforestation -- Amazon River Region
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Rain forests -- Brazil
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Rain forests -- Amazon River Region
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South America.
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Latin America.
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HISTORY.
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Environmental Conservation & Protection.
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Conservationists
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Deforestation
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Rain forest conservation
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Rain forests
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Amazon River Region
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Brazil
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Electronic books
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781610913485 |
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1610913485 |
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