Green Fires: Assault on Eden: A Novel of the Ecuadorian Rainforest
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 1880684160 / Publisher: Curbstone Books, April 1999
Former Peace Corps volunteer Annie Saunders returns to her former assignment, Ecuador, with her new husband Kai Schmidt, and is swept into the change brought on by oil company greed
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In the heart of the Ecuadorian rainforest, there is currently a battle between native peoples such as the Huaorani, the Quichua and the Shuar; and the American oil companies who want to expand the roads and pipelines that would end their ancient ways of life. Set in 1969, Green Fires, Assault on Eden: a Novel of the Ecuadorian Rainforest has as its backdrop, the first clashes between indigenous peoples and multinational oil companies, a battle that may well determine the fate of the rainforest. It is the story of Annie Saunders, a disillusioned Kennedy-era Peace Corps volunteer, returning to Ecuador in 1969, hoping to come to terms with her traumatic experiences there years earlier. What she finds instead is a menacing and mysterious trail which she determinedly follows - ever deeper into the jungle - uncovering a sinister secret of international dimensions.
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