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

The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812973136)

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

The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird

$18.00
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird by Barcott, Bruce

The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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Caring for orphaned animals at her own zoo in the tropical country of Belize, Sharon 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 only scarlet macaws in Belize, Matola was drawn into the fight of her life.

In The 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, Matila and her confederates-a ragtag army of courageous locals and eccentric expatriates-endure slander and reprisals and take the fight to the courtroom and the boardroom, from local village streets to protests around the globe. Barcott explores the tension between environmental conservation and human development, puts a human face on the battle over globalization, and ultimately shows us how one unwavering woman risked her life to save the most beautiful bird in the world.

Author: Bruce Barcott
ISBN-10: 0812973135
ISBN-13: 9780812973136
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 01/13/2009
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.32w x 0.74d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 02/15/2009 pg. 24
By Bruce Barcott
By Bruce Barcott
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Bruce Barcott, author of The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier, is a contributing editor at Outside magazine. His feature articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Sports Illustrated, Harper's, Utne Reader, and other publications. He contributes reviews to The New York Times Book Review and the public radio show Living on Earth, and is a former Ted Scripps Fellow at the University of Colorado. He lives in Seattle with his wife and their two children.

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