Masters of the Lost Land - Heriberto Araujo

Masters of the Lost Land

Murder and Corruption in the Amazon Rainforest
Buch | Softcover
432 Seiten
2024 | Main
Atlantic Books (Verlag)
978-1-83895-148-1 (ISBN)
13,70 inkl. MwSt
The gripping true story of the fight for human, economic and environmental justice raging in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.
'Powerful and Important' Guardian
'Powerful' Financial Times
'More twists and turns than a Hollywood spy thriller' Spectator
'A story we all need to hear' New Statesman
'Gripping... Araujo's accretion of detail has a powerful effect' New York Times

*Shortlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing*

Deep in the heart of the Amazon, an entire region has lived under the control of one notorious land baron: Josélio de Barros. Josélio cut a grisly path to success: having arrived in the jungle with a shady past, he quickly made a name for himself as an invincible thug who grabbed massive tracts of public land, burned down the jungle and executed or enslaved anyone trying to stop him.

Enter Dezinho, the leader of a small but robust farm workers' union fighting against land grabs, ecological destruction, and blatant human rights abuses. When Dezinho was killed in a shocking assassination, the local community held its breath. Would Josélio, whom everyone knew had ordered the hit, finally be brought to account? Or would authorities look the other way, as they had hundreds of times before?

Dezinho's widow, Dona Joelma, was not about to let that happen. After his murder, she stepped into the spotlight, orchestrating a huge push to bring national media attention to the injustices in the Amazon.

Set against the backdrop of Bolsonaro's devastating cuts to environmental protections, Brazil's rapidly changing place in the geopolitical spectrum, and the Amazon's crucial role in climate change, Masters of the Lost Land is both a gripping epic into one of the last wild places on Earth and an urgent illustration of how people are fighting for - and winning - justice for their futures and the environment.

Heriberto Araujo is an investigative journalist, author and speaker who has reported on the Amazon for the New York Times. His work on the region has also been published by the Washington Post, the Atlantic and the Guardian. He is the co-author of China's Silent Army.

1: The Escape 2: The Criminal Syndicate 3: Terror on the Nut Road 4: The Chainsaw Murder 5: The Boomtown 6: Early Challenges 7: Crickets and Cattle 8: No Longer Meek 9: Hunting Souza 10: Nowhere to Hide 11: Nothing Shining in Eldorado 12: Death and Salvation 13: An Unusual Case 14: The Evidence Man 15: A Cause Larger Than Death 16: The Law of the Gun 17: Land or We Burn the Jungle 18: Amazonian Justice 19: Sink or Swim 20: The Widow Must Fall 21: "Load the Trucks" 22: She Is Out 23: The Trial 24: A Certain Sense of Justice 25: Epilogue

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 393 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Kriminologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 1-83895-148-2 / 1838951482
ISBN-13 978-1-83895-148-1 / 9781838951481
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich