Margarito\'s Forest is based on the life of Don Margarito Esteban Alvarez VelAzquez as told by his daughter, Dona\' MarIa Guadelupe.
This book is a commemoration of his courage.
As the deforesting effects of climate change become clear, Don Margarito\'s life and the ways of the Maya offer timely wisdom for a planet in peril.
This story of the Maya love for the earth, passed from one generation to the next, is set in Saq Ja\', a small, remote village in the mountains of central Guatemala.
Margarito\'s Forest is based on the life of Don Margarito Esteban Alvarez VelAzquez as told by his daughter, Dona\' MarIa Guadelupe