The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest
by By Revkin, Andrew
Category: Nature , Environmental Conservation & Protection

"A well-written and sympathetic biography of the late Chico Mendes, leader of the Acre rubber tappers who was assassinated in Dec. 1988. Uses biographical format successfully to probe the wider economic, social, and political questions of Amazonian development. Excellent for classroom use"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.