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

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 cle...

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Main Author: Revkin, Andrew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Island Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Mendes, Chico, > 1944-1988.
Conservationists > Brazil > Biography.
Rain forest conservation > Brazil.
Rain forest conservation > Amazon River Region.
Deforestation > Brazil.
Deforestation > Amazon River Region.
Rain forests > Brazil.
Rain forests > Amazon River Region.
Biographies.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781610913485
1610913485
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • Appendixes: A Resource Guide
  • Acknowledgments.

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