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Author Reel, Monte.

Title The last of the tribe : the epic quest to save a lone man in the Amazon / Monte Reel.

Publication Info. New York : Scribner, 2010.

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  981 R25    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  981.01 REE    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  981.01 RE    Check Shelf
Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description ix, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The hut -- Going native -- A land without men -- The village -- The accidental environmentalist -- Windows to his world -- Savages -- Letting go -- Battle lines -- The corridors of power -- Neither beast nor God -- Larger than life -- One more shot -- A new beginning -- A nation of one.
Summary Recounts the story of the men who ventured deep into the Amazon to find and protect the last Brazilian Indian and explains how businesspersons, politicians, territorial farmers, and the Indian himself marred an effort to save the Indian.
Subject Indians of South America -- Guaporé River Valley (Brazil and Bolivia) -- Social conditions.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- South America -- Brazil -- Social conditions.
Subject Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Social conditions.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- South America -- Guaporé River Valley (Brazil and Bolivia) -- Social conditions.
Subject Guaporé River Valley (Brazil and Bolivia) -- Social conditions.
Guaporé River Valley (Brazil and Bolivia) -- Discovery and exploration.
Wild men -- Guaporé River Valley (Brazil and Bolivia)
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