Amazon Watershed
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 Cover of the first edition | |
| Author | George Monbiot |
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| Language | English |
| Subjects | Deforestation, The Amazon, Logging |
| Published | London |
| Publisher | Michael Joseph, Abacus (1992) |
Publication date | 1991 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 374 |
| ISBN | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
| Preceded by | Poisoned Arrows |
| Followed by | No Man's Land: An Investigative Journey Through Kenya and Tanzania |
Amazon Watershed : the new environmental investigation is a 1991 book by British writer and environmental and political activist George Monbiot.
Synopsis
[edit | edit source]The book is an investigation into the expulsion of peasants from their homes and their forced relocation to the Amazon. Military police attempt to kill Monbiot as he exposes a vast military project opening up the area to logging and deforestation. He tracks timber cut illegally from Indian reserves all the way back to retailers in the United Kingdom. According to the publishers, Monbiot also "examines the role of the British and American governments in promoting, wittingly or otherwise, this great ecological catastrophe".[1]
Reception
[edit | edit source]The book won the Natural World Book Prize, described as "the premier environmental book prize in the UK" in 1991.
References
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- 1991 non-fiction books
- 1991 in the environment
- Books about Brazil
- Books about imperialism
- Books critical of capitalism
- Environmental non-fiction books
- Sustainability books
- Non-fiction books about Indigenous peoples of the Americas
- Books about foreign relations of the United Kingdom
- Books about foreign relations of the United States
- Books by George Monbiot
- Michael Joseph books
- Investigative journalism
- Environment book stubs
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