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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780099493099
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal author Wangari Muta Maathai
245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Unbowed :
Subtitle one woman's story
264 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture London :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Arrow,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2008
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Physical description 314 p. :
Accompanying material photographs
520 ## - ABSTRACT
Abstract Born in a rural Kenyan village in 1940, Wangari Maathai was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most African girls then were uneducated. In her remarkable and inspiring autobiography, she tells of her studies with Catholic missionaries, earning bachelors and master's degrees in the United States, and becoming the first woman both to earn a PhD and to head a university department in Kenya. She tells of her numerous run-ins with the brutal government of Daniel arap Moi and of the political and personal reasons that compelled her, in 1977, to establish the Green Belt Movement, which spread from Kenya across Africa, and which helps restore indigenous forests while assisting rural women by paying them to plant trees in their villages.<br/><br/>Maathai's extraordinary courage and determination helped transform Kenya's government into the democracy in which she now serves as Deputy Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources and as a Member of Parliament. Eventually her achievement was internationally recognized in the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded in recognition of her 'contribution to sustainable development, human rights, and peace'.
650 ## - SUBJECT HEADINGS
Subject term Autobiography
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Subject term Environment
650 ## - SUBJECT HEADINGS
Subject term Biography
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
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Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type
    Wessex     South London and Maudsley Trust Library South London and Maudsley Trust Library Shelves 26/09/2024   ZZ9 MAA SLAM000611 26/09/2024 26/09/2024 Book