Wangari Maathai

Unbowed

A Memoir

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Produktbeschreibung

From the first African woman--and the first environmentalist--to win the Noble Peace Prize comes her powerfully inspiring memoir. Founder of the Green Belt Movement Maathai recounts the obstacles and motivations that have guided her to lead a singularly uncommon life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anchor Books
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 130mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 379g
• ISBN-13: 9780307275202
• ISBN-10: 0307275205
• Artikelnr.: 22698293

Autorenporträt

WANGARI MUTA MAATHAI was born in Nyeri, Kenya, in 1940. She is the founder of the Green Belt Movement, which, through networks of rural women, has planted over 30 million trees across Kenya since 1977. In 2002, she was elected to Kenya's Parliament in the first free elections in a generation, and in 2003, she was appointed Deputy Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 2004, she has three grown children and lives and works in Nairobi.

Rezensionen

Wangari Maathai's memoir is direct, honest, and beautifully written - a gripping account of modern Africa's trials and triumphs, a universal story of courage, persistence, and success against great odds in a noble cause Bill Clinton