We will be meeting at 6pm at Becky's Coffee Corner in Prosser
Dr. Celeste' Lynn will be hosting this event.
In 1996 a southwestern Brazillian based journalist from the Washington Post got a glimpse of a great mystery. A rare one man tribe was discovered. The book covers the struggle between the allies of this lone Indian (which includes government employees) and the battle of ruthless ranch settlers and government bureaucracies. Discoveries and investigations reveal the amazing jungle story of historical, economical, and national suspense.
“The Last of the
Tribe is ‘Avatar’ for grown-ups, a
tribe-in-peril-story with real people, complicated motives, and every bit of
subtlety and nuance left out of James Cameron's cliched script. Reel's
tale is expertly told: perfectly timed, thoroughly researched and descriptively
written. Back stories, personal histories, character development and political
context are deftly woven into the narrative, and each departure from the quest
feels appropriate at the time.”
– The San Francisco Chronicle
“The fate of the Amazon rainforest is one that
concerns us all. Yet as American journalist Monte Reel suggests in this
excellent book, the closer you get to the problem, the harder it is to see your
way clearly.... Reel teases out the paradoxes -- and high drama -- of
anthropology in action.
-- The Financial Times
“Gripping... [Reel] is good with context – the
section on official Brazilian policy toward indigenous people is powerful and
sad – but he’s best when he’s indulging in good old-fashioned adventure writing:
Arrows fly, poisonous snakes writer through the undergrowth, and sinister
ranchers lord over the boomtowns of Brazil’s Wild West. The real star here turns
out to be the Amazon itself, a place thick with ‘irrepressible’ flora and a
‘gaudy display’ of fauna – a place, in short, that is ‘neither paradise nor
perdition.’”
– The Washington Post
