The burning season
Subtitle: the murder of Chico Mendes and the fight for the Amazon rain forest
By: Andrew Revkin.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Mendes, Chico, d. 1988; Conservationists -- Brazil -- Biography; Rain forest conservation -- Brazil; Rain forest conservation -- Amazon River Region; Deforestation -- Brazil; Deforestation -- Amazon River Region; Rain forests -- Brazil; Rain forests -- Amazon River Region
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-310).