Rainforest Corridors: The Transamazon Colonization Scheme

Rainforest Corridors: The Transamazon Colonization Scheme offers a sweeping examination of one of the most ambitious—and controversial—development projects in the history of the tropics. Beginning in 1970, the Brazilian government set out to integrate the vast Amazonian interior with the rest of the nation by carving the 3,300-kilometer Transamazon Highway through dense rainforest and settling hundreds of thousands of families along its route. This bold plan promised modernization and econo...