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Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon: Dispatches from the Brazilian Rainforest, The

Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon: Dispatches from the Brazilian Rainforest, The

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Author: Fabio Zuker | Paperback

A Book Riot “Must-Read Book in Translation for 2022”

As the Amazon burns, Fábio Zuker shares stories of resistance, self-determination, and kinship with the land.  

In 2007, a seven-ton minke whale was found stranded on the banks of the Tapajós River, hundreds of miles into the Amazon rainforest. For days, environmentalists, journalists, and locals followed the lost whale, hoping to guide her back to the ocean, but ultimately proved unable to save her. Ten years later, journalist Fábio Zuker travels to the state of Pará, to the town known as “the place where the whale appeared,” which developers are now eyeing for mining, timber, and soybean cultivation.

In these essays, Zuker shares intimate stories of life in the rainforest and its surrounding cities during an age of raging wildfires, mass migration, populist politics, and increasing deforestation. The subjects Zuker interviews are often torn between ties with their ancestral territories and the push toward capitalist gains; The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon captures the friction between their worlds and the resilience of movements for autonomy, self-definition, and respect for the land that nourishes us.