The Vanishing Amazon: Wars of the interior

When you fill up your car, install your furniture or choose a wedding ring, do you ever consider the human cost of your consumables?

There is a war raging in the heartlands of Peru, waged on the land by the global industries plundering the Amazon and the Andes.  Joseph Zarate, author of Wars of the Interior, will take three of Peru's most precious resources - gold, wood and oil - and expose the tragedy, violence and corruption tangled up in their extraction. But he will also draw you into the rich, surprising world of Peru's indigenous communities, of local heroes and singular activists, of ancient customs and passionate young environmentalists.

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