Savages by Joe Kane, Marty Asher (Editor)
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(Paperback - Reprint)
- Pub. Date: August 1996
- 304pp
- Sales Rank: 79,782
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: August 1996
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Format: Paperback, 304pp
- Sales Rank: 79,782
- Series: Vintage Departures Series
- ISBN-13: 9780679740193
- ISBN: 0679740198
- Edition Description: Reprint
Synopsis
Savages is a firsthand account, by turn hilarious, heartbreaking, and thrilling, of a small band of Amazonian warriors and their battle to preserve their way of life. Includes eight pages of photos.
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"Journalist's fascinating and well-written account of the Huao peoples' struggle against North American oil companies and evangelical missionaries resulting from the construction of the oil pipeline in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Provides an insider's view of international NGO politics, indigenous federation politics, missionized indigenous peoples, and the special place occupied by the Huao in Ecuadorian indigenous struggles"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Publishers Weekly
Firsthand account of the battle between oil companies and an indigenous Indian population for control of territory in the Amazon. (Aug.)
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May 18, 2003: The Equdorian Amazon Indians who fought back against everything that came their way. Then when their territory was totally threatened by the oil interests, they came to New York and Washington DC to fight for their rights and the land that was theirs.
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