The World Is Burning: Murder in the Rain Forest

By Alex Shoumatoff

Book Overview

The story of Chico Mendes, self-taught environmentalist and leader of a people fighting to save their way of life in the rainforest, who was gunned down outside his home in Brazil's remote state of Acre in late 1988.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316787396
• ISBN13: 9780316787390
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.1" x 6.3"