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The Resource The burning season : the murder of Chico Mendes and the fight for the Amazon rain forest, Andrew Revkin
The burning season : the murder of Chico Mendes and the fight for the Amazon rain forest, Andrew Revkin
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The item The burning season : the murder of Chico Mendes and the fight for the Amazon rain forest, Andrew Revkin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries.
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- Summary
- "A well-written and sympathetic biography of the late Chico Mendes, leader of the Acre rubber tappers who was assassinated in Dec. 1988. Uses biographical format successfully to probe the wider economic, social, and political questions of Amazonian development. Excellent for classroom use"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 317 pages, [16] pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780395523940
- Label
- The burning season : the murder of Chico Mendes and the fight for the Amazon rain forest
- Title
- The burning season
- Title remainder
- the murder of Chico Mendes and the fight for the Amazon rain forest
- Statement of responsibility
- Andrew Revkin
- Subject
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- Biography
- Brandrodung
- Brasilien
- Brazil
- Conservationists
- Conservationists -- Brazil -- Biography
- Deforestation
- Deforestation -- Amazon River Region
- Deforestation -- Brazil
- Mendes, Chico
- Amazon River Region
- Mendes, Chico, 1944-1988
- Mord
- Rain forest conservation
- Rain forest conservation -- Amazon River Region
- Rain forest conservation -- Brazil
- Rain forests
- Rain forests -- Amazon River Region
- Rain forests -- Brazil
- Tropischer Regenwald
- Mendes, Chico, -1988
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A well-written and sympathetic biography of the late Chico Mendes, leader of the Acre rubber tappers who was assassinated in Dec. 1988. Uses biographical format successfully to probe the wider economic, social, and political questions of Amazonian development. Excellent for classroom use"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Revkin, Andrew
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- SD411.52.M46
- LC item number
- R48 1990
- Literary form
- non fiction
- NAL call number
- SD411.52.M46R48
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mendes, Chico
- Mendes, Chico
- Mendes, Chico
- Conservationists
- Rain forest conservation
- Rain forest conservation
- Deforestation
- Deforestation
- Rain forests
- Rain forests
- Conservationists
- Deforestation
- Rain forest conservation
- Rain forests
- Brandrodung
- Tropischer Regenwald
- Mord
- Amazon River Region
- Brazil
- Brasilien
- Summary URI
- http://www.loc.gov/hlas
- Label
- The burning season : the murder of Chico Mendes and the fight for the Amazon rain forest, Andrew Revkin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-310)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 317 pages, [16] pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780395523940
- Lccn
- 90004413
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)21335871
- Label
- The burning season : the murder of Chico Mendes and the fight for the Amazon rain forest, Andrew Revkin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-310)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 317 pages, [16] pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780395523940
- Lccn
- 90004413
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)21335871
Subject
- Biography
- Brandrodung
- Brasilien
- Brazil
- Conservationists
- Conservationists -- Brazil -- Biography
- Deforestation
- Deforestation -- Amazon River Region
- Deforestation -- Brazil
- Mendes, Chico
- Amazon River Region
- Mendes, Chico, 1944-1988
- Mord
- Rain forest conservation
- Rain forest conservation -- Amazon River Region
- Rain forest conservation -- Brazil
- Rain forests
- Rain forests -- Amazon River Region
- Rain forests -- Brazil
- Tropischer Regenwald
- Mendes, Chico, -1988
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