Books recommended by Marina Silva

Marina Silva was born on a rubber plantation in Acre, learned to read as a teenager, and graduated in history. A fellow activist alongside Chico Mendes, she was elected senator at age 36 and has headed the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change in two separate periods (2003–2008 and since 2023). When listing the books that changed her life, she chose philosophy and inner life: The Human Condition, by Hannah Arendt, In Search of Politics, by Zygmunt Bauman, and Alma Sobrevivente, by Philip Yancey — a bookshelf that brings together public thought and spirituality.