By Michael Astor
Associated Press Writer
“The Last of the Tribe: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon” (Scribner, $26), by Monte Reel: Monte Reel gets right to the heart of the dilemma facing modern-day Brazil as its rush to develop the vast Amazon rain forest rapidly collides with the last vestiges of cultures whose way of life has changed little since the Stone Age.
“The Last of the Tribe” is the story of an extreme case: a lone Indian on the run from often-murderous ranchers with a handful of hapless government agents bent on saving him.
Associated Press Writer
“The Last of the Tribe: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon” (Scribner, $26), by Monte Reel: Monte Reel gets right to the heart of the dilemma facing modern-day Brazil as its rush to develop the vast Amazon rain forest rapidly collides with the last vestiges of cultures whose way of life has changed little since the Stone Age.
“The Last of the Tribe” is the story of an extreme case: a lone Indian on the run from often-murderous ranchers with a handful of hapless government agents bent on saving him.
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