Poisoned Arrows: An Investigative Journey Through Indonesia - Softcover

Monbiot, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349101442 ISBN 13: 9780349101446

Publisher: Time Warner Books UK, 1989

Synopsis

An investigation into the tragic story of the tribal people of western New Guinea describing the Indonesian government's hugely destructive transmigration campaign which it is using to drive them off their ancestral lands into poverty and starvation.

About this title

About the Author:

George Monbiot is the author of The Age of Consent: a manifesto for a new world order and Captive State: the corporate takeover of Britain. His other books include Poisoned Arrows and Amazon Watershed. He is a columnist for The Guardian and Visiting Professor of Planning at Oxford Brookes University. He has held visiting professorships or fellowships at the universities of Oxford (environmental policy), Bristol (philosophy), Keele (politics) and East London (environmental science).

Review:

It is stunning . . . he ran great personal risks, living under false identities and suffering extraordinary tropical fitsĀ but the strength of the book is that he resists the twin temptations of humourless campaigning and macho bragging . . . . It is far more than a travel book, yet as entertaining as any. Don't miss it * Sunday Express * George Monbiot's fresh, often amusing account offsets the young author's wonder at the untouched natural beauty of the place with his horror at the systematic genocide being waged against its ancient tribal culture * Sunday Telegraph *

About this edition

• Publisher: Time Warner Books UK
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0349101442
• ISBN 13: 9780349101446
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248