Unbowed.

MAATHAI, Wangari.

Item Number: 4357

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

First edition of this Nobel Peace Prize winner’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with 16 pages of photographs. Signed by Wangari Maathai who has added the words “Rise up and Walk!” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gabriele Wilson. Illustration by Christopher Silas Neal. Laid in is a lecture announcement, given by Maathai.

Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement and was the recipient of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. "Wangari Maathai’s memoir is direct, honest, and beautifully written—a gripping account of modern Africa’s trials and triumphs, a universal story of courage, persistence, and success against great odds in a noble cause" (President Bill Clinton).