After the trees
Subtitle: living on the Transamazon Highway
By: Douglas Ian Stewart.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: Farms, Small -- Amazon River Region; Farms, Small -- Brazil; Deforestation -- Amazon River Region; Deforestation -- Brazil
Description: "When construction of the Transamazon Highway was proposed in 1970, the Brazilian media depicted a road stretching out through a flat expanse of mature forests, its surface paved with glittering stones and precious metals - purported riches of the Amazon yet to be discovered." But, as Douglas Stewart found while traveling the highway in 1989, "the forest deceives." The 1,000-kilometer trip from Belem to Altamira took "three days, six buses, three boats, and a ten-hour hitch with a truck driver named Eduardo."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-173) and index.