Books by Wangari Muta Maathai and Complete Book Reviews
Wangari Muta Maathai, Author . Pantheon $25 (319p) ISBN 978-0-307-37740-1
Africa's moral and cultural dysfunctions loom as large as its material problems in this wide-ranging jeremiad. Maathai (Unbowed
), a Kenyan biologist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for organizing the tree-planting Green Belt Movement,...
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Wangari Maathai, Doubleday Religion, $13 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-0-307-59114-2
Nobel Peace laureate Maathai (Unbowed) returns with a call for a reconnection to the planet and its inhabitants, expanding upon the practical and spiritual mission behind the Green Belt Movement. Formed by Maathai in 1977 (and chronicled in her 2003
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Wangari Muta Maathai, Author Lantern Books $16 (117p) ISBN 978-1-59056-040-2
In October 2004, environmental activist Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, an honor that has sparked the publication of this expanded edition of her slim treatise, first published in 1985 and then revised in 2003....
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Wangari Muta Maathai, Author Alfred A. Knopf $26.95 (314p) ISBN 978-0-307-26348-3
Maathai, a 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, presents a matter-of-fact account of her rather exceptional life in Kenya. Born in 1940, Matthai attended primary school at a time when Kenyan girls were not educated; went on to earn a Ph.D. and became...
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