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The third bank of the river : power and survival in the twenty-first-century Amazon / Chris Feliciano Arnold.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arnold, Chris Feliciano, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arnold, Chris Feliciano, 1981---Travel--Brazil--Amazon River Region.
- Arnold, Chris Feliciano.
- Drug traffic.
- Logging.
- Corruption.
- Violence.
- Indians of South America.
- Social conditions.
- Environmental conditions.
- Amazon River Region--Social conditions.
- Amazon River Region.
- Amazon River Region--Environmental conditions.
- Indians of South America--Amazon River Region--Social conditions.
- Violence--Amazon River Region.
- Corruption--Amazon River Region.
- Logging--Amazon River Region.
- Drug traffic--Amazon River Region.
- Ecology.
- Indians of South America--Social conditions.
- Travel.
- Local Subjects:
- Arnold, Chris Feliciano, 1981---Travel--Brazil--Amazon River Region.
- Logging--Amazon River Region.
- Indians of South America--Amazon River Region--Social conditions.
- Corruption--Amazon River Region.
- Drug traffic--Amazon River Region.
- Violence--Amazon River Region.
- Amazon River Region--Social conditions.
- Amazon River Region--Environmental conditions.
- Genre:
- Travel writing.
- Physical Description:
- x, 338 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Picador, 2018.
- Summary:
- A veteran journalist evaluates the state of the war over the Amazon, tracing the efforts of environmental activists, locals, and indigenous tribes to save the jungle from the dangers of loggers, drug lords, and corrupt politicians.
- Contents:
- Part I: A finite world
- Fan fest
- Isolation
- A way back from oblivion
- Site X
- The real jungle
- The Brazil reader
- Wolves among sheep
- The Devil's Paradise
- Quarantine
- Part II: How monsters are born
- Biti's gang
- Maximum power
- The bloody weekend
- a sense of security
- Très fronteiras
- Operation Wolfpack
- Ghost riders
- Part III: The Amazon clock
- A land without men
- City of vultures
- Soul counts
- Guardians
- Last dance
- The torch and the jaguar.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-338).
- ISBN:
- 9781250098948
- 1250098947
- OCLC:
- 1029071317
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