In 1957 Adrian Cowell met the Villas Boas brothers, who worked on behalf of Amazon Indian tribes as yet uncontaminated by outside contact, & accompanied them deep into the rain forest of Brazil. He filmed two documentary series on them for the BBC. In 1980 he began a decade-long project to film the destruction of the people, environment, & resources then being sanctioned in Amazonia by the Brazilian government & underwritten by the West. This book is the textual accompaniment to those films. It stands on its own as a dramatic record of violence, duplicity, waste, & loss, but it also bears witness to the courage of ordinary men & women. Photos.