Excellent condition. PB. 368pp. $25 including postage anywhere in Australia.
Perched above Brazil on the shoulder of South America, Surinam is a land of myth and magic. Once traded to the Dutch by the English in return for Manhattan, it is now home to the largest tract of pristine rainforest left on earth.
Andrew Westoll first fell under Surinam's spell as a young biologist, studying monkeys deep inside its primordial jungles. Five years later he returned, determined to chart the human, historical and environmental legacies of this surprising, little-known land.
What he found was a country poised on the brink of profound change- a nation facing either ecological catastrophe or salvation.
Westoll explores Surinam's bloody past, the allure of its wild places, the legends and rituals of its extraordinary people.
An honest and beautiful writer he conjures a place of golden light and impenetrable shadow, of long-held secrets and sacred stories. And in the end he uncovers a nation that- like Westoll himself- is still in search of its own destiny.
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