Book, Banzeiro òkòtó: a trip to the Amazon Center of the World[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. Eliane Brum combines personal reporting and journalistic investigation to write an urgent book denouncing and defending the Amazon, a place she adopted as her home and in whose fight for survival she actively participates. Writer, journalist and documentary filmmaker, Eliane Brum takes a deep dive into the multiple realities of the largest tropical forest on the planet. With almost 35 years of experience as a reporter, she has traveled to different Amazon regions for more than twenty years. In 2017, he adopted the forest as his home when he moved from São Paulo to Altamira, the epicenter of destruction and one of the most violent cities in Brazil since the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant was built. Based on rigorous research, Brum denounces the escalation of devastation that is rapidly taking the forest to the point of no return. And it goes further to reflect on the impact of the actions of the dominant minority that led the world to climate collapse and the sixth mass extinction of species. In this sometimes fascinating, sometimes terrifying journey, the author comes across various forest beings and shows how race, class and gender are involved in the destiny of the Amazon and the Earth. An essential book for those who have the courage to seek answers to the urgent times we live in, written by those who are not afraid to take risks to seek them.