eBooks - Social Issues - Environmental Issues - Brian Harvey - The End of the River: Strangling the Rio São Francisco
The End of the River: Strangling the Rio São Francisco eBook
by Brian Harvey
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The End of the River: Strangling the Rio São Francisco Summary
| Shedding light on the misuse of science, this investigation presents an innovative form of environmental writing as one biologist searches for a solution that will save many fish species from life-threatening dams. His adventure takes him from a fisheries patrol boat on the Fraser River to the great Tsukiji fish market in Japan-with stops in the Philippines, Thailand, and assorted South American countries-and his quest finally culminates in the arid outback of northeast Brazil. Along the way, the author encounters many memorable characters,áincluding a six-foot endangered catfish, a Canadian professor with a weakness for Thai bar girls, a chain-smoking Brazilian, and a drug-addled stick-up artist. This account portrays fishermen, fish farmers, and even fish cops in a new light, as well as scientists, shysters, and some very drunk, very hairy Brazilian men in thongs. |
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