There are places that belong to one country. And there are places that also belong to the imagination of millions who have never set foot there. The Amazon is one of those places.
A child at the river's edge who asks the question no one has ever turned back on her grandfather. A rubber tapper who fought for a forest the world only later learned to call sacred. A British correspondent chasing a headline that turns out to hold twelve different truths. A Boston professor who discovers his own dinner has a documented line to Amazonian deforestation. A woman in Spain who learns that the medicine which saved her life began with a poisoned arrow.
Twenty-one voices — some real, some built from real lives — tell the story of the world's most argued-over forest, each holding only a fragment of the answer.
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Grounded in documented science, history, and journalism — and written with the emotional pull of a novel — Twenty-One Views of the Amazon does not try to resolve the fight over what this forest should become. It follows a child's question across four generations, through rubber barons and satellite scientists, land grabbers and Indigenous leaders, a British journalist and a Spanish surgery patient, until the question returns, thirty years later, to the same riverbank where it began.
It asks the only question that matters, and lets the reader decide:
Whose future is the Amazon?