author spotlight
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.
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A Common Destiny
A Photographic Journey Through a Changing World
Contribution by James Lovelock and Wangari Maathai
Photographed by Cedric Delsaux
Introduction by Bill McKibben
Format: Hardcover, 216 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $75.00
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A Photographic Journey Through a Changing World
Contribution by James Lovelock and Wangari Maathai
Photographed by Cedric Delsaux
Introduction by Bill McKibben
Format: Hardcover, 216 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $75.00
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The Challenge for Africa
Written by Wangari Maathai
Format: eBook
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $25.00
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Written by Wangari Maathai
Format: eBook
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $25.00
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The Challenge for Africa
Written by Wangari Maathai
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $15.95
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Written by Wangari Maathai
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $15.95
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The Challenge for Africa
Written by Wangari Maathai
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $25.00
Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, offers a refreshingly unique perspective on the challenges facing Africa, even as she calls for a moral revolution among Africans themselves, who, she argues, are culturally deracinated, adrift between worlds.
The troubles of Africa today are severe and wide-ranging... Read more >
Written by Wangari Maathai
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $25.00
Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, offers a refreshingly unique perspective on the challenges facing Africa, even as she calls for a moral revolution among Africans themselves, who, she argues, are culturally deracinated, adrift between worlds.
The troubles of Africa today are severe and wide-ranging... Read more >
Unbowed
A Memoir
Written by Wangari Maathai
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Wangari Maathai
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
Unbowed
Written by Wangari Maathai
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 3, 2006
Price: $26.95
Hugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a single mother of three, recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya.
Born in a rural village in 1940, Wangari Maathai was already an iconoclast... Read more >
Written by Wangari Maathai
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 3, 2006
Price: $26.95
Hugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a single mother of three, recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya.
Born in a rural village in 1940, Wangari Maathai was already an iconoclast... Read more >
Unbowed
A Memoir
Written by Wangari Maathai
Format: eBook, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 12, 2008
Price: $15.00
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A Memoir
Written by Wangari Maathai
Format: eBook, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 12, 2008
Price: $15.00
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