Unbowed
by Maathai, Wangari
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0307263487
- ISBN 13
- 9780307263483
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About This Item
New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006, hardcover, xvii-314 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Signed by the Author without personal inscription, simply 'Best Wishes, Wangari' on the title page, Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight rubs and edge bumps, in new Brodart sleeve. Laid-in is an announcement/invitation of The Geoffrey O. Seltzer Lecture at Syracuse University, 17 October 2006, entitled Sustainable Development, Democracy, and Peace: A Critical Link, containing biographies of the speaker, and Mr. Seltzer, and a donation card. Also laid in is a newspaper clipping from the Syracuse Post-Standard reviewing the event and sharing the speaker's message. This personal memoir from the founder of the Green Belt Movement in Africa and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize follows the author through her early life and struggle for education, her numerous run-ins with the brutal Moi government, and her eventual election to the Kenyan Parliament in 2002. Illustrated with 16 pages of black-&-white photographs. Appended: Konyeki na Ithe, or 'Konyeki and His Father', Index. ISBN 9780307263483
Synopsis
In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people's environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread across Africa. Persevering through run-ins with the Kenyan government and personal losses, and jailed and beaten on numerous occasions, Maathai continued to fight tirelessly to save Kenya's forests and to restore democracy to her beloved country. Infused with her unique luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai's remarkable story of courage, faith, and the power of persistence is destined to inspire generations to come.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- West of Eden Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11370
- Title
- Unbowed
- Author
- Maathai, Wangari
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition stated, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0307263487
- ISBN 13
- 9780307263483
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- October 3, 2006
- Keywords
- Africa; Biography & Autobiography; Business & Economics; General; Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya); Green Belt Movement (Society: Kenya); History; Kenya; Leadership; Political; The environment; Women conservationists
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