[bksvol-discuss] Submission (nonfiction)
- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "BookShare" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:47:55 -0500
Hi all,
I've just submitted for validation "Sowing the Dragon's Teeth: Land Mines
and the Global Legacy of War" by Philip Winslow.
It's been read through and pre-validated. Headers stripped; chapter titles
and page numbers protected.
163 pages.
[Back Cover[]
Each year an estimated twenty-six thousand people are killed or maimed by
land mines-- more than 100 million of them sown like the mythical dragon's
teeth in over seventy countries. These weapons are designed to maim
soldiers, but most victims are civilians, especially the rural poor. Winslow
writes about these people and the Campaign to Ban Landmines (which was
awarded The Nobel Peace Prize in 1997). He tells about the efforts to pull
the dragon's teeth from the earth so that it can be restored to those who
live on it.
Philip Winslow transports readers to the villages of eastern Angola to
witness the daily havoc wreaked by land mines in a country struggling to
keep a fragile peace. . . . Sowing the Dragon's Teeth makes a strong case
that a ban [on land mines]--championed by the late Princess Diana--is a
necessity.
Deborah
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