Publicado por Lyons Pr, 1996
ISBN 10: 1558214062 ISBN 13: 9781558214064
Librería: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
Publicado por Lyons Pr, 1996
ISBN 10: 1558214062 ISBN 13: 9781558214064
Librería: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Publicado por Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 1996
ISBN 10: 1558214062 ISBN 13: 9781558214064
Librería: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Publicado por Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 1996
ISBN 10: 1558214062 ISBN 13: 9781558214064
Librería: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Publicado por Lyons Pr, 2001
ISBN 10: 1585743402 ISBN 13: 9781585743407
Librería: HPB-Red, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
paperback. Condición: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or limited writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
Publicado por Lyons Pr, 2001
ISBN 10: 1585743402 ISBN 13: 9781585743407
Librería: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
Publicado por Lyons Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 1585743402 ISBN 13: 9781585743407
Librería: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.68.
Publicado por Lyons Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 1585743402 ISBN 13: 9781585743407
Librería: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.68.
Publicado por Lyons Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 1558214062 ISBN 13: 9781558214064
Librería: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.
Publicado por Lyons Pr, 1996
ISBN 10: 1558214062 ISBN 13: 9781558214064
Librería: N. Fagin Books, Chicago, IL, Estados Unidos de America
1996. South America, Native Americans. Lyons and Burford. Very good cloth spine and boards, very good dust jacket 216p.
Publicado por Lyons Press, New York, NY, 1996
ISBN 10: 1558214062 ISBN 13: 9781558214064
Librería: 2Vbooks, Derwood, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Hard cover. Condición: Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 215 p. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name LOOKS BRAND NEW HC 232.
Publicado por Globe Pequot Pr October 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 1585743402 ISBN 13: 9781585743407
Trade Paperback. Condición: Used - Good.
Publicado por Lyons Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 1558214062 ISBN 13: 9781558214064
Librería: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Inscription from author "Mike" Tidwell on front flyleaf. Dated and with location.
Publicado por Lyons & Burford, Publishers, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1996
ISBN 10: 1558214062 ISBN 13: 9781558214064
Librería: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. One man obsessed with the Ecuadorian jungle and desperate to save it and its people chronicles the struggle of the Cofan people against Big Oil. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NFBS1.
Publicado por Lyons & Burford, New York, 1996
ISBN 10: 1558214062 ISBN 13: 9781558214064
Librería: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
hardcover. Condición: very good(+). Estado de la sobrecubierta: very good(+). 215 pages. 8vo, 1/2 cloth, d.w. (lightly scuffed). New York: Lyons & Burford, (1996). A very good(+) copy-- bumped corner, small green stain on rear board-- in a very good(+) dust wrapper.
Publicado por Lyons Pr, 1996
ISBN 10: 1558214062 ISBN 13: 9781558214064
Librería: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, Reino Unido
Condición: Good. Jacket/hard board have light wear, marks and scratches. Book is lopsided to the left. Minor crumpling at a few page edges. Text excellent and possibly unread.
Publicado por Lyons & Burford, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1996
ISBN 10: 1558214062 ISBN 13: 9781558214064
Librería: Booked Experiences Bookstore, Burlington, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First. pp.215 A searing account of the battle being waged deep within Ecuador's Amazonian rainforest between international oil companies and the Cofan Indian Tribe. clean tight copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Publicado por Lyons Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 1558214062 ISBN 13: 9781558214064
Librería: The Book Spot, Sioux Falls, SD, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: New.
Publicado por Lyons Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 1585743402 ISBN 13: 9781585743407
Librería: The Book Spot, Sioux Falls, SD, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: New.
Publicado por Lyons Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 1558214062 ISBN 13: 9781558214064
Librería: Rural Hours (formerly Wood River Books), La Grande, OR, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
Hardcover. Condición: Near fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near fine. First edition. Signed on the half-title page. Near fine with one bump to lower front corner; in a near fine jacket with light rubbing.
Publicado por Lyons & Burford, New York, 1996
ISBN 10: 1558214062 ISBN 13: 9781558214064
Librería: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Oliver Williams (Map of Ecuador), Russell Kaye (Ja Ilustrador. First Printing [Stated]. v, [3], 215, [1] pages. Author's Note. Autographed copy sticker on front of DJ Signed by the author on the half-title page. DJ has some wear, soiling and is price clipped. One man obsessed with the Ecuadorian jungle and desperate to save it and its people chronicles the struggle of the Coffin people against Big Oil. Mike Tidwell is the founder and director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness about the impacts and solutions associated with global warming in Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C., West Virginia, and nationwide. He is also an author and filmmaker who predicted in vivid detail the Katrina hurricane disaster in his 2003 book Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast. His most recent book, focusing on Katrina and global warming, is titled The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Race to Save America's Coastal Cities. His 2004 documentary film, We Are All Smith Islanders, vividly depicts the dangers of global warming in Maryland, Virginia, and D.C. Tidwell has been featured in numerous national media outlets including NBC's Meet the Press, NPR, the New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, Politico, and the Washington Post. In 2003, Tidwell received the Audubon Naturalist Society's prestigious Conservation Award. Two years later he received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Amazon Stranger: A Rainforest Chief Battles Big Oil relates Tidwell's stay in the Amazonian jungles of Ecuador. Here he finds the Coffin tribe, which is led, interestingly enough, by Randy Borman, the son of American missionaries who was born in the rain forest. The land and the tribe's way of life is threatened by the activities of local oil companies. Praising this depiction of the battle between industry, the environment, and native peoples in Amazon Stranger, a Publishers Weekly critic reported that Tidwell "paints a vivid picture of the rain forest and its people," and Alice Joyce called it a "deftly written book" in a Booklist review. Derived from a Kirkus review: From deep in the Ecuadoran rainforest, from the heart of the Coffin Indian lands, comes Tidwell's spirited firsthand report on the indigenous peoples' struggle to survive. Eastern Ecuador perhaps defines the notion of biodiversity, a natural habitat agog with every manner of creature, and the home of the Coffin Indians. It is also the resting place of petroleum products, which Texaco wished to exploit as far back as 1965 and which are now eyed covetously by the Texas-based Maxus oil group. Tidwell paid a visit to the rainforest to gauge the effects of ecotourism and fell for the place wholesale, rapt in the ``macaws and kapok trees, dolphins and sherbert butterflies.'' He was equally smitten by Randy Borman, son of white missionaries and now leader of the Zabalo Coffin, and his efforts to protect the diminished Coffin acreage from further assault by oil interests. But this is not just a David against Goliath storyâ"though it is a blow-by-blow account of the canny Coffin challenge to forays by the government-controlled Petroecuador into their territory. It is also the sad tale of ruined Indian villages, where wildlife was out and oil spills were in. Amid all the mayhem caused by the oil companies, Tidwell treats readers to the episodic theater of the jungle, with one fantastic siting tripping over another. By turns wry, morose, upbeat, and blue, Tidwell writes with admirable restraint and with an appealing personal touch: He was always crushed when the quixotic Borman treated him brusquely. A tale with enough punch to turn a few heads and enough storytelling talent to keep the converted charmed.