The Devil's Curve : A Journey into Power and Profit at the Amazon's Edge Ernie Crey Short-listed Alberta Literary Award

Short-listed Alberta Literary Award

This blockade formed a crucial link in a series of protests that had shut down transport and industry across the entire Peruvian Amazon -- the third-largest tract of rainforest on earth

Bering's ship

and their exploits almost always had political ramifications

and then the tragic disappearance that would irrevocably shape the rest of her life

The Devil's Curve : A Journey into Power and Profit at the Amazon's Edge Ernie Crey Short-listed Alberta Literary AwardDescription A vivid tear through South America, exposing the devastating impact of globalization. In June 2009, 60 soldiers slipped into the thorn covered bush above Devil's Curve, a notorious bend in the two lane highway connecting Peru's northern Amazon to the outside world. The soldiers had orders to dislodge the 3,000 Awajun natives who had been camped at Devil's Curve for the past 57 days. The subsequent clash was deadly. This blockade formed a