Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial

by Richard Price and Richard Price

Book Overview

Rainforest Warriors is a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, their threatened rainforest, and their successful attempt to harness international human rights law in their fight to protect their way of life--part of a larger story of tribal and indigenous peoples that is unfolding all over the globe.

The Republic of Suriname, in northeastern South America, contains the highest proportion of rainforest within...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812221370
• ISBN13: 9780812221374
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"