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Wars of the Interior (Paperback): Joseph Zarate

Wars of the Interior (Paperback)

Joseph Zarate; Translated by Annie McDermott

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When you fill up your car, install your furniture or choose a wedding ring, do you ever consider the human cost of your consumables? There is a war raging in the heartlands of Peru, waged on the land by the global industries plundering the Amazon and the Andes. In Saweto, charismatic activist Edwin Chota returns to his ashaninka roots, only to find that his people can't hunt for food because the animals have fled the rainforest to escape the chainsaw cacophony of illegal logging. Farmer Maxima Acuna is trying to grow potatoes and catch fish on the land she bought from her uncle - but she's sitting on top of a gold mine, and the miners will do anything to prove she's occupying her home illegally. The awajun community of the northern Amazon drink water contaminated with oil; child labourer Osman Cunachi's becomes internationally famous when a photo of him drenched in petrol as part of the clean-up efforts makes it way around the world. Joseph Zarate's stunning work of documentary takes three of Peru's most precious resources - gold, wood and oil - and exposes the tragedy, violence and corruption tangled up in their extraction. But he also draws us in to the rich, surprising world of Peru's indigenous communities, of local heroes and singular activists, of ancient customs and passionate young environmentalists. Wars of the Interior is a deep insight into the cultures alive in the vanishing Amazon, and a forceful, shocking expose of the industries destroying this land.

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Imprint: Granta Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2021
Authors: Joseph Zarate
Translators: Annie McDermott
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 978-1-78378-615-2
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Embargos & sanctions
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > From 1900 > Reportage & collected journalism
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LSN: 1-78378-615-9
Barcode: 9781783786152

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