Signed. Amazon Journal: Dispatches from a Vanishing Frontier

O'Connor, Geoffrey

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ISBN 10: 0525941134 ISBN 13: 9780525941132

Published by Dutton Adult, 1997

Language: English

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VG plus green cloth octavo wraps in a like, priced dj. 8vo. 378pp. Index. Flat Signed on Tp. Stated first printing but number line only goes to 2 . Likely a second edition. Nice copy with light general wear. Nature travel.

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Signed. Amazon Journal: Dispatches from a Vanishing Frontier

Publisher

Dutton Adult

Publication Date

1997

Language

English

ISBN 10

0525941134

ISBN 13

9780525941132

Binding

Hardcover

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2nd Edition

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Very Good

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Very Good

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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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