num_pages: 215
description: In 1957 Adrian Cowell met the Villas Boas brothers, who worked on behalf of Amazon Indian tribes as yet uncontaminated by outside contact, &amp; accompanied them deep into the rain forest of Brazil. He filmed two documentary series on them for the BBC. In 1980 he began a decade-long project to film the destruction of the people, environment, &amp; resources then being sanctioned in Amazonia by the Brazilian government &amp; underwritten by the West. This book is the textual accompaniment to those films. It stands on its own as a dramatic record of violence, duplicity, waste, &amp; loss, but it also bears witness to the courage of ordinary men &amp; women. Photos.
language: English
title: The Decade of Destruction
titlecomplete: The Decade of Destruction
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Anchor