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The Boy Who Grew a Forest : The True Story of Jadav Payeng.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gholz, Sophia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pāẏeṅa, Yādawa, 1963---Juvenile literature.
- Pāẏeṅa, Yādawa.
- Environmentalists--India--Jorhāt (District)--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Environmentalists.
- Foresters--India--Jorhāt (District)--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Foresters.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (36 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : Sleeping Bear Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- As a boy, Jadav Payeng was distressed by the destruction deforestation and erosion was causing on his island home in India's Brahmaputra River. So he began planting trees. What began as a small thicket of bamboo, grew over the years into 1,300 acre forest filled with native plants and animals. The Boy Who Grew a Forest tells the inspiring true story of Payeng.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Beginning of Text
- About the Author
- Author's Note
- Plant a Forest of Your Own.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5341-3842-0
- OCLC:
- 1085226049
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