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Country United Kingdom Publication date 1991 Pages 374 ISBN 0349101620 | 3.7/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (paperback) Originally published 1991 Page count 374 Publisher Michael Joseph | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Preceded by Poisoned Arrows: An investigative journey through the forbidden lands of West Papua Similar Poisoned Arrows, Captive State, The Age of Consent, No Man's Land: An Investigat, Poisoned Arrows: An investigat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Amazon Watershed : the new environmental investigation is a 1991 book by British writer and environmental and political activist, George Monbiot.
Contents
Synopsis
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 deforestatoion. He tracks timber cut illegally from Indian reserves all the way back to retailers in the United Kingdom. According to the publishers, Monbiot also "He examines the role of the British and American governments in promoting, wittingly or otherwise, this great ecological catastrophe".
Reception
The book won the Natural World Book Prize, described as "the premier environmental book prize in the UK" in 1991.