Amazon Watershed

{{Short description|1991 book by George Monbiot}} {{about|the book|the geographic region in South America|Amazon basin}} {{primary sources|date=August 2015}} {{Use British English|date=August 2015}} {{Infobox book | italic title =  | name = Amazon Watershed | image = File:Amazon Watershed.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Cover of the first edition | author = George Monbiot | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | release_number = | subjects = Deforestation, The Amazon, Logging | set_in = | published = London | publisher = Michael Joseph | publisher2 = Abacus (1992) | pub_date = 1991 | media_type = Print (paperback) | pages = 374 | awards = | isbn = 0349101620 | oclc = | dewey = | preceded_by = Poisoned Arrows | followed_by = No Man's Land: An Investigative Journey Through Kenya and Tanzania }}

'''''Amazon Watershed : the new environmental investigation''''' is a 1991 book by British writer and environmental and political activist George Monbiot.<ref>{{cite web |title=Amazon watershed : the new environmental investigation / by George Monbiot |url=https://www.si.edu/object/amazon-watershed-new-environmental-investigation-george-monbiot:siris_sil_418838 |website=Smithsonian |access-date=12 January 2026}}</ref>

==Synopsis== The book is an investigation into the expulsion of peasants from their homes and their forced relocation to the Amazon. Military police attempt to kill Monbiot as he exposes a vast military project opening up the area to logging and deforestation. He tracks timber cut illegally from Indian reserves all the way back to retailers in the United Kingdom. According to the publishers, Monbiot also "examines the role of the British and American governments in promoting, wittingly or otherwise, this great ecological catastrophe".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.monbiot.com/books/amazon-watershed/|title=Amazon Watershed|accessdate=19 August 2015|website=Monbiot.com}}</ref>

==Reception== The book won the Natural World Book Prize, described as "the premier environmental book prize in the UK" in 1991.

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Category:1991 non-fiction books Category:1991 in the environment Category:Books about Brazil Category:Books about imperialism Category:Books critical of capitalism Category:Environmental non-fiction books Category:Sustainability books Category:Non-fiction books about Indigenous peoples of the Americas Category:Books about foreign relations of the United Kingdom Category:Books about foreign relations of the United States Category:Books by George Monbiot Category:Michael Joseph books Category:Investigative journalism