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The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw : One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird by Bruce Barcott (2008, Hardcover)

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"The first time we came here I didn't know what to expect," she told me as we paddled upstream. "What we found just blew me away. Jaguars, pumas, river otters, howler monkeys. The place was like a Noah's Ark for all the endangered species driven out of the rest of Central America. There was so much life! That expedition was when I first saw the macaws." As a young woman, Sharon Matola lived many lives. She was a mushroom expert, an Air Force survival specialist, and an Iowa housewife. She hopped freight trains for fun and starred as a tiger tamer in a traveling Mexican circus. Finally she found her one true calling: caring for orphaned animals at her own zoo in the Central American country of Belize. Beloved as "the Zoo Lady" in her adopted land, Matola became one of Central America's greatest wildlife defenders. And when powerful outside forces conspired with the local government to build a dam that would flood the nesting ground of the last scarlet macaws in Belize, Sharon Matola was drawn into the fight of her life. InThe Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw, award-winning author Bruce Barcott chronicles Sharon Matola's inspiring crusade to stop a multinational corporation in its tracks. Ferocious in her passion, she and her confederatesa ragtag army of courageous locals and eccentric expatriatesendure slander and reprisals and take the fight to the courtroom and the boardroom, from local village streets to protests around the world. As the dramatic story unfolds, Barcott addresses the realities of economic survival in Third World countries, explores the tension between environmental conservation and human development, and puts a human face on the battle over globalization. In this marvelous and spirited book, Barcott shows us how one unwavering woman risked her life to save the most beautiful bird in the world.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400062934
ISBN-13
9781400062935
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60670440

Product Key Features

Book Title
Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw : One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird
Author
Bruce Barcott
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Environmental Conservation & Protection, Birds, Animals / Birds
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Nature, Pets
Number of Pages
336 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ql696.P7b27 2008
Reviews
"Thrilling . . . Barcott mashes up adventure, nature writing and biography in a steamy climate of corruption and intrigue." The New York Times Book Review "An absorbing narrative about an unheralded and faraway environmental battle that speaks volumes about the ways of our worldand how an individual might actually change it. This is a great read and an important story." Michael Pollan, author ofIn Defense of Food "This fascinating account . . . touches upon greed, corruption, and the legacy of colonialism. . . . Not even Hollywood could invent Sharon Matola [the] plucky American." Entertainment Weekly "This real page-turner of narrative nonfiction is hard to put down." Booklist "Partly Hiaasen-esque, but real life." New York Post "With a plot so multilayered and dramatic that readers will need to remind themselves it's a true account, the narrative achieves the depth of a case study and the accessible intimacy of a short feature." The Miami Herald From the Trade Paperback edition.
Copyright Date
2008
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2007-019954
Dewey Decimal
333.95/871097282
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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by belizeandmoreMar 15, 2018
Wonderful book heart felt about corruption
It shows the corruption of politicians and how the world of nature takes a back seat to greed and lies The government of Belize is so corrupt and steals from its citizens still to this day Shameful and sad that the future is in the hands of man who are full of greed
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by Oa2KD9VETYe@Del...Jul 30, 2008
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