The burning season : the murder of Chico Mendes and the fight for the Amazon rain forest / Andrew Revkin.

Author
Revkin, Andrew [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
Description
317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

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    Summary note
    "A well-written and sympathetic biography of the late Chico Mendes, leader of the Acre rubber tappers who was assassinated in Dec. 1988. Uses biographical format successfully to probe the wider economic, social, and political questions of Amazonian development. Excellent for classroom use"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-310).
    Contents
    • The burning season
    • Amazonia
    • Weeping wood
    • Jungle book
    • Coming of age in the rain forest
    • Roads to ruin
    • The fight for the forest
    • The wild west
    • Joining forces
    • The greening of Chico Mendes
    • An innocent abroad
    • Into the fire
    • The dying season.
    ISBN
    • 039552394X
    • 9780395523940
    LCCN
    90004413
    OCLC
    21335871
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