Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Book

Author:

Arnold, Chris Feliciano, 1981- author.

Title:

The third bank of the river : power and survival in the twenty-first-century Amazon / Chris Feliciano Arnold.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Picador, 2018.

Description:

x, 338 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Summary:

A veteran journalist evaluates the state of the war over the Amazon, tracing the efforts of environmental activists, locals, and indigenous tribes to save the jungle from the dangers of loggers, drug lords, and corrupt politicians.

Subjects:

Arnold, Chris Feliciano, 1981- -- Travel -- Brazil -- Amazon River Region.

Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Social conditions.

Violence -- Amazon River Region.

Corruption -- Amazon River Region.

Logging -- Amazon River Region.

Drug traffic -- Amazon River Region.

Amazon River Region -- Social conditions.

Amazon River Region -- Environmental conditions.

Genre:

Travel writing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-338).

Contents:

Part I: A finite world -- Fan fest -- Isolation -- A way back from oblivion -- Site X -- The real jungle -- The Brazil reader -- Wolves among sheep -- The Devil's Paradise -- Quarantine -- Part II: How monsters are born -- Biti's gang -- Maximum power -- The bloody weekend -- a sense of security -- Très fronteiras -- Operation Wolfpack -- Ghost riders -- Part III: The Amazon clock -- A land without men -- City of vultures -- Soul counts -- Guardians -- Last dance -- The torch and the jaguar.

LCCN:

2017059158

ISBN:

9781250098948

1250098947

Other Number:

1029071317

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

729152

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

306.098 Arnold