An edition of Amazon Journal (1997)

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An edition of Amazon Journal (1997)

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In 1987, documentary filmmaker Geoffrey O'Connor read a four-line report about a gold rush taking place on Indian lands deep in the heart of the Brazilian rain forest. Suddenly his work - and his life - took a sharp turn south. The more he researched the story, the more unbelievable it became: one billion dollars' worth of gold was leaving the Amazon every year.

O'Connor set out to capture on video what he believed would be a sadly predictable tale of victims - the Yanomami Indians - and aggressors - a virtual army of 45,000 gold miners. However, this "simple story" proved to be something far more ambiguous and complex.

Peopled by real-life characters ranging from an eccentric mine owner toting a solid-gold pistol to a renegade priest who smuggled O'Connor into Yanomami territory against military orders, O'Connor's startling narrative becomes a journey into a contemporary heart of darkness, a compelling and compassionate look at a vanishing people, and a blistering account of the forces of destruction, both human and environmental, at work within the greatest forest on earth.

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Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Pages
378

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Cover of: Amazon Journal
Amazon Journal: Dispatches from a Vanishing Frontier
September 1, 1998, Plume
in English
Cover of: Amazon journal
Amazon journal: dispatches from a vanishing frontier
1997, Dutton
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
333.75/137/09811
Library of Congress
GE160.A685 O26 1997, GE160.A685O26 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
378 p. ;
Number of pages
378

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL677310M
Internet Archive
amazonjournaldis00ocon
ISBN 10
0525941134
LCCN
97023611
OCLC/WorldCat
37179671
Library Thing
304196
Goodreads
1307885

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