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This is a firsthand account of a small band of Amazonian warriors and their battle to preserve their way of life from the scourge of civilization. Joe Kane, author of "Running the Amazon", returns to the river to search for the Huaorani, a nation of 1300 nomadic warriors so remote that their language is unrelated to any other on Earth. For millenia all comers have been turned away from their land, a territory in the middle of the Ecuadorian Amazon the size of Massachusetts, USA. In the 1990s, the Huaorani are besieged by oil companies, missionaries, indigenous bureacrats and envionmentalists intent on helping them "better" themselves. This book recounts the efforts of the Huaorani to vault from the Stone Age to the "Petroleum Age".
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In this impressive, funny and moving work, Joe Kane tells the story of the Huaorani, a tribe living in the deepest part of the Amazonian rain forest in Ecuador. The Huaorani have only in the last generation been exposed to such items as the wristwatch. But the modern world is reaching them quickly; for better or worse--usually worse--they live astride some of Ecuador's richest oilfields. Oil production in the Amazon has opened the forest to colonization and industrialization, often with alarming results: about 17 million gallons, of raw crude, more than in the Valdez spill in Alaska, were spilled from a Amazon pipeline between 1972 and 1989. Kane, who lived with the Huaorani for months, immaculately reports on the tribes' connections with the old world and its battles with the new one.
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Savages is a firsthand account, by turn hilarious, heartbreaking, and thrilling, of a small band of Amazonian warriors and their battle to preserve their way of life. Includes eight pages of photos.
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- PublisherPan Books
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0330349333
- ISBN 13 9780330349338
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages275
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 275 pages. Cover worn. Text tannedDescription This is a firs thand account of a small band of Amazonian warriors and their bat tle to preserve their way of life from the scourge of civilizatio n. Joe Kane, author of Running the Amazon, returns to the river t o search for the Huaorani, a nation of 1300 nomadic warriors so r emote that their language is unrelated to any other on Earth. For millenia all comers have been turned away from their land, a ter ritory in the middle of the Ecuadorian Amazon the size of Massach usetts, USA. In the 1990s, the Huaorani are besieged by oil compa nies, missionaries, indigenous bureacrats and envionmentalists in tent on helping them better themselves. This book recounts the ef forts of the Huaorani to vault from the Stone Age to the Petroleu m Age. Seller Inventory # 840p
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