Amazon Journal

Dispatches from a Vanishing Frontier

Geoffrey O'Connor (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

1998
New American Library (Verlag)
978-0-452-27610-9 (ISBN)

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Describes recent events in the Brazilian rain forest.

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.

Geoffrey O'Connor is a documentary filmaker whose film "At the Edge of Conquest" was nominated for an Academy Award. He lives in New York City.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.9.1998
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	137 x 203 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Südamerika
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-452-27610-1 / 0452276101
ISBN-13	978-0-452-27610-9 / 9780452276109
Zustand	Neuware