Unbowed: A Memoir by Wangari Maathai

Unbowed: A Memoir

Wangari Maathai

368 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir reflective slow-paced

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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, f...

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inspiring 88%
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emotional 31%
challenging 11%
adventurous 8%
tense 8%
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dark 2%
funny 2%

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