(1st ptg.) Slightly smaller book, dark green spine, smooth green boards, bright silver lettering and logo on spine, very tiny crease at top front tip, bottom tip lightly bumped, 378 pages. DJ creased and wrinkled inside front flap. DJ glossy with color photo of jungle hills on front, spine and back, praise on back from Michael Moore, Mark J. Plotkin, Andrew Revkin. DJ has tiny crease at top front tip. Signed by author on title page. DJ beneath mylar. DJ and book, both Near Very Fine.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Amazon Journal: Dispatches from a Vanishing Frontier

Publisher

E. P. Dutton, New York, New York, U.S.A.

Publication Date

1997

Language

English

ISBN 10

0525941134

ISBN 13

9780525941132

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Ptg.

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Very Fine

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Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Describes recent events in the Brazilian rain forest, and discusses the indigenous rights movement, the Brazilian gold rush, and the plight of the native Indians

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This reportage flows from O'Conner's recent camera work in Brazil, which has been edited into a documentary (with the same title) released this year. Although his book is permeated with descriptions of clear-cut swathes of jungle, the biological consequences of the gold and cattle rushes in the Amazon are not O'Conner's subject; rather, it is the white-indigenous peoples' conflict, the last chapter in the epic stretching back to Columbus. Visiting villages of the Yanomami and the Kayapo, O'Conner respectfully films their prominent figures and chronicles the disease and violence that are reducing the numbers and territories of the Brazilian Indians. His information is bound to be valued once the forces of development on the Brazilian frontier--the mine entrepreneurs, the road builders, and the ranchers--prevail. The author's prose seems videographic rather than literary, but that will not deter interested readers, who will appreciate O'Conner's accounting of the reality behind the publicity images, promoted by celebrity sympathizers (Sting) and Earth Summiteers, of the Indians' beleaguered way of life. Gilbert Taylor

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