The man who loved pink dolphins : a true story of life and death in the Amazon
Ham, Anthony2023
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This is the story of Christopher Clark, a remarkable man who spent his life helping to save a pristine corner of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Clark's strict childhood sent him far from home in search of adventure, landing him in the Amazon, where he fell in love with the forest, its people and its wildlife. When a village elder in a dying riverbank town begged him to save the forest and its inhabitants, this challenge became his life's work. Over the next thirty years, he set up home in one of the most remote parts of the Amazon and lived an extraordinary life. Together with the isolated Waimiri-Atroari Indigenous people, he stared down men with machine guns, weathered government campaigns to discredit and drive him out, apocalyptic fires, and more. Anthony Ham travelled to Clark's forest home, and listened as Clark told his story for the first time.
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Author:
Ham, Anthony, author
Imprint:
Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2023.
Collation:
296 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781761065514 (pbk)
Dewey class:
333.72092BCLA
Language:
English
Subject:
Clark, ChristopherConservationists -- Brazil -- BiographyConservationists -- Scotland -- BiographyRural development -- Environmental aspects -- Amazon River RegionEnvironmental degradation -- Amazon River RegionNature -- Effect of human beings on -- Amazon River RegionBiographySouth AmericaBiography & non-fiction proseBiography: generalAutobiography: generalConservation of wildlife & habitats
BRN:
1324072
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