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The Courageous Life and Martyrdom of Sister Dorothy Stang
Doubleday
February 2008
On Sale: February 5, 2008
256 pages
ISBN: 0385522185
EAN: 9780385522182
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
In 1966, Sister Dorothy Stang went to Brazil as a
missionary, and in 1982 she moved to a small town in the
Amazon to work with an organization to protect poor farmers
and their land from loggers and land-developers who stop at
nothing—including murder—in pursuit of profits. After
testifying at a government panel investigating illegal
incursions into protected areas, Sister Dorothy was
denounced as a “terrorist” by powerful companies and began
receiving death threats. Refusing to be intimidated, she
continued her work—until two gunmen shot her six times on a
rural Amazon road. THE GREATEST GIFT is the first biography of this
extraordinary woman and her mission. Written by a mainstream
journalist who has spent many years in Brazil, it exposes
the entrenched collusion between government officials and
commercial interests and celebrates the profound courage of
Sister Dorothy and others fighting to protect the Amazon
jungles and the people eking out a life there. Inspired by deep religious conviction, Dorothy Stang gave of
herself generously. A book that will resonate with readers
of Sister Helen Prejean’s Dead Man Walking, THE GREATEST
GIFT presents not only the story of Sister Dorothy’s tragic
death, but the powerful and beautiful lessons of her life.
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