Tree of Rivers : The Story of the Amazon (Paperback) - The Story of the Amazon

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.

List 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

Report

'The book is a tour de force, nearly as rich and fascinating as the place itself' - New Scientist

Product details

• Authors: John Hemming
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.11.2009
• EAN: 9780500288207
• ISBN: 978-0-500-28820-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Weight: 501 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), History of the Americas, Amazon River, Amazon river and tributaries, Amazon;19th Century Design;Botany