Into the Amazon Chico Mendes and the Struggle for the Rain Forest by Dwyer, Augusta - 1990

Canada: Key Porter Books. As New in As New dust jacket. 1990. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. The Amazonian rain forest has become an internationally recognized symbol of the struggle between the forces of violence and destruction, acting in the name of progress, and the forces of tradition, acting to preserve a way of life and an irreplaceable source. At the center of this struggle was Chico Mendes, the rubber tapper and union organizer who did more than any other individual to alert the world to the rape of the rain forest. Brutally murdered in 1988, he became synonymous with the plight of the Amazonian people and the extraordinary world they inhabit. This book is the revealing story of the people who live in the forest: The rubber tappers, river people, small landholders and natives. Augusta Dwyer not only spoke to them; she lived among them, sharing their meals and their way of life. Additionally, she was one of the few journalists to become close friends with Mendes. What emerges from the author's account is more than the dissection of a topical issue; it is a committed and sensitive portrait of a region in turmoil. 250 pages including a glossary. 6" x 9 1/4; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 250 pages .