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Deep in the heart of the Amazon, a vast region lived for decades under the control of one notorious land baron : Josélio de Barros. Josélio arrived in the jungle with a shady past and quickly made a name for himself as an invincible strongman who grabbed huge tracts of public land, burned down the forest, expelled Indigenous tribes and kept migrant workers in conditions of modern-day slavery.
Only the charismatic leader of a small farmworkers' union , Dezinho, and his wife, Maria Joel, a single mother of four young children, stood up fo the people who called the Amazon home. Against great odds end at extreme personal risk, their crusade for justice unearthed a chilling world of corruption ans lawessness.
Set against a backdrop of devastating environmental damage, Brazil's dizzying [...]

Deep in the heart of the Amazon, a vast region lived for decades under the control of one notorious land baron : Josélio de Barros. Josélio arrived in the jungle with a shady past and quickly made a name for himself as an invincible strongman who grabbed huge tracts of public land, burned down the forest, expelled Indigenous tribes and kept migrant workers in conditions of modern-day slavery.
Only the charismatic leader of a small farmworkers' union , Dezinho, and his wife, Maria Joel, a single mother of four young children, stood up fo the people who called the Amazon home. Against great odds end at extreme personal risk, their crusade for justice unearthed a chilling world of corruption ans lawessness.
Set against a backdrop of devastating environmental damage, Brazil's dizzying industrial development and the Amazon's crucial role in climate change, and based on four years of research, Masters of the Lost Land is a gripping murder mystery revealing the human story behind one of the most serious crimes of our time : the ruthless destruction of the largest rainforest on earth.