Patrick Tierney - Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the AmazonRelease Date: January 01, 2002 |
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Patrick Tierney - Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon - Examines the destructive impact of journalists, anthropologists, and scientists on the Yamomami Indians, one of the Amazon basin's oldest tribes, whose internecine warfare was triggered by repeated visits by the world's leading anthropologists and by the Atomic Energy Commission's plans to use the tribe in radiation studies. Reprint.
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| Authors | Patrick Tierney |
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| Nonfiction Category | History • Social Science • Technolo |
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| Nonfiction Subcategory | • • • • • |
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| Awards | 2000 National Book Award |
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| Professional Reviews | Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.): "While Tierney appears to be championing the Yanomami, in truth he, too, is exploiting them, selling a sensationalist book on the strength of their images as forest people and victims." |
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| Book Editions | PaperbackReprint431January 01, 2002W W Norton & Co Inc9.25"(h) x 6"(w) x 1.25"(d), 1.5 lbs.9780393322750 |
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