Tree of rivers : the story of the Amazon
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Tree of rivers : the story of the Amazon
Thames & Hudson, 2009
- : pbk
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Originally published: 2008
Includes bibliographical references (p. 346-363) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This enthralling book brilliantly describes the passionate struggles that have taken place in order to utilize, protect and understand the wonder that is the Amazon. Hemming's riveting account recalls the adventures and misadventures down the centuries of the explorers, missionaries, indigenous Indians, naturalists, rubber barons, scientists, anthropologists, archaeologists, political extremists, prospectors and many more, who have been in thrall to the Amazon, the largest river in the world, with the greatest expanse of tropical rain forest and most luxuriant biological diversity on earth.
Table of Contents
1. Arrival of Strangers * 2. Anarchy on the Amazon * 3. The Empty River * 4. Directorate to Cabanagem * 5. A Naturalist's Paradise * 6. The Rubber Boom * 7. The Black Side of Rubber * 8. Explorers and Indians * 9. Archaeologists Find Early Man * 10. Planes, Chainsaws and Bulldozers * 11. The Largest River in the Largest Forest
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