Tree of Rivers
The Story of the Amazon
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Tree of Rivers “
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
Autoren-Porträt von John Hemming
John Hemming was Director of the Royal Geographical Society for over twenty years. He has travelled extensively in the Amazon region, where he experienced many of the same thrills and hardships as the naturalists featured in this book. He was awarded Peru's highest civil decoration, the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: John Hemming
- 2009, 368 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Maße: 5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd
- ISBN-10: 0500288208
- ISBN-13: 9780500288207
Sprache:
Englisch
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