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Little, Brown, publishers, Boston - ISBN:0316787396, 1990. hardcover, 6½" x 9½", with dust jacket. Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers & barcode, etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket. When union leader Francisco "Chico" Mendes was gunned down in the remote Amazonian state of Acre late in 1988, it seemed like just another murder in the backlands of Brazil, a vast region dominated by the world's last primeval wilderness. This book is a first-hand account of the native rubber-trappers struggle to free themselves from the near-slavery of debt peonage. The folly, corruption, and greed behind development schemes in Amazonia are fully chronicled here.