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Author: Roger Harris Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides ISBN: 9781841621739 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 436
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This new edition has been completely revised with updated information on hotels, lodges and tour operators. It contains a detailed and illustrated natural history section on native species and habitats. The Amazon is an ideal location for eco-travellers, naturalists, sports enthusiasts and explorers. Travellers are given sound advice on responsible travel and planning their own expedition.
Author: Roger Harris Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides ISBN: 9781841621739 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 436
Book Description
This new edition has been completely revised with updated information on hotels, lodges and tour operators. It contains a detailed and illustrated natural history section on native species and habitats. The Amazon is an ideal location for eco-travellers, naturalists, sports enthusiasts and explorers. Travellers are given sound advice on responsible travel and planning their own expedition.
Author: Henry Clemens Pearson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Amazon River Languages : en Pages : 270
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A detailed description of the great rubber industry of the Amazon Valley, which comprises the Brazilian States of Pará, Amazonas and Matto Grosso, the Territory of the Acre, the Montaña of Peru and Bolivia, and the Southern portions of Colombia and Venezuela.
Author: H. Sioli Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9400965427 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 762
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The Amazon -that name was given to the biggest river on earth and is often used for the whole area of its basin too. This geographical region is currently referred to as Amazonia, thus emphasizing the peculiar character of its aquatic and terrestrial reaches. The Amazon embodied the dream of many a naturalist to explore what for a long time was a terra incognita. In recent years, however, Amazonia has emerged as a main centre for 'development' by some of the countries in which it lies and by foreign industrialized nations. The development projects and enterprises have aroused woridwide interest and have given rise to discussions on their aims and their consequences to the Amazonian nature. Limnological and ecological investigations in Amazonia started only about 40 years ago. The editor had the good fortune to partake in them from the very beginning. He spent his decisive years in Amazonia, and dedicated his life's work to that research and to that country and the Amazonian people. Nearing the end of his scicntific activities, hc is gratcful to bc ablc to summarizc in this book most of the knowledge we possess at present of Amazonian limnology and landscape ecology.
Author: Joe Kane Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307809900 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 412
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The voyage began in the lunar terrain of the Peruvian Andes, where coca leaf is the only remedy against altitude sickness. It continued down rapids so fierce they could swallow a raft in a split second. It ended six months and 4,200 miles later, where the Amazon runs gently into the Atlantic. Joe Kane's personal account of the first expedition to travel the entirety of the world's longest river is a riveting adventure in the tradition of Joseph Conrad, filled with death-defying encounters: with narco-traffickers and Sendero Luminoso guerrillas and nature at its most unforgiving. Not least of all, Running the Amazon shows a polyglot group of urbanized travelers confronting their wilder selves -- their fear and egotism, selflessness and courage.
Author: William Lawrence Adams Publisher: Author House ISBN: 1481773526 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 498
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The Republic of Bolivia, as it existed prior to the termination of the war with Chile in 1882, had an area of 597,271 square miles, exclusive of the territory of El Chaco, claimed alike by Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina. The population, though never carefully determined, was estimated by the best Bolivian authorities as two and a half million, and of this, about half consisted of savage and domesticated Indians. In other words, a population about equal to that of the State of Massachusetts occupied a territory three and a half times greater in area than that covered by our ten New England and Middle States combined. During the colonial days of South America, Bolivia was a part of Peru, having been subdued and annexed by Hernando, a brother of Francisco Pizarro, and in 1559, it was formed into the Audiencia of Charcas, or Upper Peru. The haughtiest of all the old Spanish Conquistadores, says a prominent writer, settled in the country and clustered their titled families around its ten thousand open silver-mines. slogan: Keep Faith in Self and, Have Fun Trying W. L. Gunny ADAMS
Author: Ken Filing Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1490761675 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 239
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A tribe of Amazon women have fought a devastating battle with an Indian tribe in the Amazon Basin. Prior to the battle the beautiful blonde leader became pregnant from an encounter with a missionary doctor. She gives birth to a girl who, some day, is destined to be a leader of the clan. An earthquake kills the entire village of Amazon women except for the young girl who goes on to grow and prosper while on a quest to locate her father. Many adventures and pitfalls occur while she travels the rain forest looking for the village where her father is a missionary doctor. Follow her adventures as she too becomes a doctor and searches for a cure to a devastating tropical disease.
Author: Richard Spruce Publisher: ISBN: Category : Amazon River Valley Languages : en Pages : 594
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Having previously embarked on a collecting expedition to the Pyrenees, backed by Sir William Hooker and George Bentham, the botanist Richard Spruce (1817-93) travelled in 1849 to South America, where he carried out unprecedented exploration among the diverse flora across the northern part of the continent. After his death, Spruce's writings on fifteen fruitful years of discovery were edited as a labour of love by fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), whom Spruce had met in Santarém. This two-volume work, first published in 1908, includes many of the author's exquisite illustrations. Showing the determination to reach plants in almost inaccessible areas, Spruce collected hundreds of species, many with medicinal properties, notably the quinine-yielding cinchona tree, as well as the datura and coca plants. Volume 1 contains Wallace's biographical introduction and a list of Spruce's published works. The narrative includes discussion of Pará, Santarém, and the Negro and Orinoco rivers.
Author: Roger Harris
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