University of Missouri Press Amazons

When E.J. Levy arrived in northern Brazil at the age of 21, she was hoping to help save the Amazon rainforest; she didn't realise she would soon have to save herself. This recounts an idealistic young woman's coming of age, and explores the interaction of the many forces fuelling deforestation - examining the ecological, economic, social, and spiritual costs of ill-conceived development - with the myriad ones that shape young women's maturation.