Central to this drama was the lingering presence of Mendes himself, the rubber tapper turned ecologist whose attempt to save the rainforest ultimately cost him his life. His story, told in a series of essays and interviews accompanied by Bishop's vividly evocative paintings, is concise and exemplary. Above all, he was, in the words of his widow Ilzemar, "a

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