Tree Of Rivers The Story Of The Amazon

Author : John Hemming
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780500771242

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Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon by John Hemming Pdf

“In his long career of exploration and scholarship, Hemming has become a powerful advocate for the Amazon.”—The New York Times, John Hemming Amazonia is one of the most magnificent habitats on earth. Containing the world’s largest river, with more water and a broader basin than any other, it hosts a great expanse of tropical rain forest, home to the planet’s most luxuriant biological diversity. The human beings who settled in the region 10,000 years ago learned to live well with its bounty of fish, game, and vegetation. It was not until 1500 that Europeans first saw the Amazon, and, unsurprisingly, the rain forest’s unique environment has attracted larger-than-life personalities through the centuries. John Hemming recalls the adventures and misadventures of intrepid explorers, fervent Jesuit ecclesiastics, and greedy rubber barons who enslaved thousands of Indians in the relentless quest for profit. He also tells of nineteenth-century botanists, fearless advocates for Indian rights, and the archaeologists and anthropologists who have uncovered the secrets of the Amazon’s earliest settlers. Hemming discusses the current threat to Amazonia as forests are destroyed to feed the world’s appetite for timber, beef, and soybeans, and he vividly describes the passionate struggles taking place in order to utilize, protect, and understand the Amazon.

Author : John Hemming
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780500771242

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Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon by John Hemming Pdf

“In his long career of exploration and scholarship, Hemming has become a powerful advocate for the Amazon.”—The New York Times, John Hemming Amazonia is one of the most magnificent habitats on earth. Containing the world’s largest river, with more water and a broader basin than any other, it hosts a great expanse of tropical rain forest, home to the planet’s most luxuriant biological diversity. The human beings who settled in the region 10,000 years ago learned to live well with its bounty of fish, game, and vegetation. It was not until 1500 that Europeans first saw the Amazon, and, unsurprisingly, the rain forest’s unique environment has attracted larger-than-life personalities through the centuries. John Hemming recalls the adventures and misadventures of intrepid explorers, fervent Jesuit ecclesiastics, and greedy rubber barons who enslaved thousands of Indians in the relentless quest for profit. He also tells of nineteenth-century botanists, fearless advocates for Indian rights, and the archaeologists and anthropologists who have uncovered the secrets of the Amazon’s earliest settlers. Hemming discusses the current threat to Amazonia as forests are destroyed to feed the world’s appetite for timber, beef, and soybeans, and he vividly describes the passionate struggles taking place in order to utilize, protect, and understand the Amazon.

Author : Karen Gibson
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612283661

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The Amazon River by Karen Gibson Pdf

When people think of the great rivers of the world, the Amazon River of South America immediately comes to mind. Filled with giant snakes and fish that like the taste of blood and flesh, the Amazon is like no other place in the world. Located near the equator, the Amazon River starts as a small stream in the Andes Mountains within a hundred miles of the Pacific Ocean. From here, it travels along the northern part of the continent. Rain and melting snow increase its size. So do more than a thousand tributaries. The Amazon River’s path takes it through the world’s largest rain forest, a place where many thousands of plants and animals make their home. For several months out of the year, high rains cause the Amazon River to leave its banks and wash into the Amazon basin for millions of square miles. The flooded forests create a unique ecosystem like no other place in the world. The Amazon River creates life, food, and medicines.

Author : Buddy Levy
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780553908107

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River of Darkness by Buddy Levy Pdf

From the acclaimed author of Conquistador comes this thrilling account of one of history’s greatest adventures of discovery. With cinematic immediacy and meticulous attention to historical detail, here is the true story of a legendary sixteenth-century explorer and his death-defying navigation of the Amazon—river of darkness, pathway to gold. In 1541, the brutal conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and his well-born lieutenant Francisco Orellana set off from Quito in search of La Canela, South America’s rumored Land of Cinnamon, and the fabled El Dorado, “the golden man.” Driving an enormous retinue of mercenaries, enslaved natives, horses, hunting dogs, and other animals across the Andes, they watched their proud expedition begin to disintegrate even before they descended into the nightmarish jungle, following the course of a powerful river. Soon hopelessly lost in the swampy labyrinth, their numbers diminishing daily through disease, starvation, and Indian attacks, Pizarro and Orellana made a fateful decision to separate. While Pizarro eventually returned home barefoot and in rags, Orellana and fifty-seven men, in a few fragile craft, continued downriver into the unknown reaches of the mighty Amazon, serenaded by native war drums and the eerie cries of exotic predators. Theirs would be the greater glory. Interweaving eyewitness accounts of the quest with newly uncovered details, Buddy Levy reconstructs the seminal journey that has electrified adventurers ever since, as Orellana became the first European to navigate and explore the entire length of the world’s largest river. Levy gives a long-overdue account of the native populations—some peaceful and welcoming, offering sustenance and life-saving guidance, others ferociously hostile, subjecting the invaders to gauntlets of unremitting attack and intimations of terrifying rituals. And here is the Amazon itself, a powerful presence whose every twist and turn held the promise of new wonders both natural and man-made, as well as the ever-present risk of death—a river that would hold Orellana in its irresistible embrace to the end of his life. Overflowing with violence and beauty, nobility and tragedy, River of Darkness is both riveting history and a breathtaking adventure that will sweep readers along on an epic voyage unlike any other.

Author : Emma Rea
Publisher : Firefly Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781913102159

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My Name is River by Emma Rea Pdf

Dylan's mum thinks he's on the school Geography trip. Dylan's teacher thinks he's at home with the flu. In fact he's 30,000 feet up in the air on the way to Brazil. When Dylan's farm is snatched away by a huge global company, he can't just sit back and watch. But the journey to rescue his home takes him deep into the heart of the Amazon. With Floyd, a friend he's not sure of, and Lucia, a street kid armed with a thesaurus and a Great Dane puppy, he uncovers dark and dangerous secrets, and learns some surprising truths. 'Wow! What a book! It's riveting, it's moving, it's topical, it's superb! ... superb writing, brilliant characters, a glorious adventure and the warmest of heart. Amazing!' Malachy Doyle 'Emma Rea has written a beautifully researched adventure which encompasses the Welsh countryside and the Amazon. The unfolding friendship between Welsh Dylan and Brazilian Lucia is fabulous, and the clever plot sweeps along like a boat in a current.' Sue Wallman 'When nature-loving Dylan, 12, discovers his family farm in Wales (beautifully evoked) is being bought by a conglomerate based in Brazil, he plans to go there secretly to plead for the purchase to be abandoned ...This is the kind of adventure everyone likes to imagine when young, about being ingenious and brave and outwitting adults.' Nicolette Jones, Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week ' My Name is River... is a fantastically original adventure about a boy whose idyllic Welsh home is bought by an evil corporation. Desperate to save it, he travels from Birmingham to Brazil with his best friend. Rea's flight of imagination has two sympathetic heroes risking everything while lying their heads off. Packed with ecological indignation, it is both funny and timely.' Amanda Craig, New Statesman

Author : John Hemming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1322643938

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Tree of Rivers by John Hemming Pdf

Author : Robin Furneaux
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018282847

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The Amazon: the Story of a Great River by Robin Furneaux Pdf

"In 1499, Vincente Pinzon, who had accomanied Columbus on his first great voyage of discovery, was amazed to find that he was sailing through fresh water though out of sight of any land. He imagined that he had reached India; he was in fact off the coast of Brazil and what he had discovered was the mouth of the greatest river in the world. At its mouth the river is 208 miles wide, and every second its current sweeps seven and a half million cubic feet of water out to sea with a force which literally rolls back the Atlantic Ocean and freshens it for 150 miles. It has over a thousand tributaries, and it stretches apparently without end through rain-forest and jungle, much of which is still unexplored and inhabited only by Indians as primitive now as they were when the first Spanish conquistadors landed in South America. The Amazon is laid out on a gigantic scale and it has attracted men who seem larger than life: Pizarro and Orellana searching for El Dorado; Aguirre, a figure of almost incredible cruelty; the Jesuits with their remarkable system of controlling the natives by a Communist theocracy; La Condamine, the intrepid Isabella Godin des Odonais, and Humboldt 'the greatest man in the world', in the hunt for knowledge rather than gold; Theodore Rooseveltr discovering a new river; and the almost fabulous Colonel Fawcett. Robin Furneaux, who has himself travelled up the Amazon and describes the jungle and the river, the animals and the Indians, with great vividness, gives here a portrait in depth running from the time of the early explorers through the years of the rubber boom and the Putumayo Scandal, which sent Roger Casement off on a personal crusade that revealed facts of the utmost horror, up to the present. His book is compounded of high endeavour, tragedy and adventure, and is the first to deal with the Amazon and its history so fully and so successfully"--Publisher's description, p. [3] of dust jacket.

Author : Carmen Concilio,Daniela Fargione
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781793622808

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Trees in Literatures and the Arts by Carmen Concilio,Daniela Fargione Pdf

Embracing the intersectional methodological outlook of the environmental humanities, the contributors to this edited collection explore the entanglements of cultures, ecologies, and socio-ethical issues in the roles of trees and their relationships with humans through narratives in literature and art.

Author : Charlotte Guillain
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781410979889

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The Tree of Life by Charlotte Guillain Pdf

This book tells the story of the Tree of Life, a traditional Amazonian folk tale. In it, the people of an Amazonian village learn the importance of taking care of nature and the dangers of being too greedy.

Author : Caryl Parker Haskins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Amazon River
ISBN : STANFORD:36105049001568

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The Amazon by Caryl Parker Haskins Pdf

Author : Sarah Fabiny,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780451532756

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Where Is the Amazon? by Sarah Fabiny,Who HQ Pdf

Without risking life or limb, readers can explore the wonders and beauty of the Amazon in this Where Is...? title. Human beings have inhabited the banks of the Amazon River since 13,000 BC and yet they make up just a small percentage of the "population" of this geographic wonderland. The Amazon River basin teems with life—animal and plant alike. It's a rainforest that is home to an estimated 390 billion individual trees, 2.5 million species of insects, and hundreds of amazing creatures and plants that can either cure diseases, or, like the poison dart frog, kill with a single touch. Where Is the Amazon? reveals the amazing scale of a single rainforest that we are still trying to understand today and that, in many ways, supports our existence on this planet.

Author : Jacqueline M. Vadjunec,Marianne Schmink
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317982968

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Amazonian Geographies by Jacqueline M. Vadjunec,Marianne Schmink Pdf

Amazonia exists in our imagination as well as on the ground. It is a mysterious and powerful construct in our psyches yet shares multiple (trans)national borders and diverse ecological and cultural landscapes. It is often presented as a seemingly homogeneous place: a lush tropical jungle teeming with exotic wildlife and plant diversity, as well as the various indigenous populations that inhabit the region. Yet, since Conquest, Amazonia has been linked to the global market and, after a long and varied history of colonization and development projects, Amazonia is peopled by many distinct cultural groups who remain largely invisible to the outside world despite their increasing integration into global markets and global politics. Millions of rubber tappers, neo-native groups, peasants, river dwellers, and urban residents continue to shape and re-shape the cultural landscape as they adapt their livelihood practices and political strategies in response to changing markets and shifting linkages with political and economic actors at local, regional, national, and international levels. This book explores the diversity of changing identities and cultural landscapes emerging in different corners of this rapidly changing region. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Geography.

Author : Tina Frolund
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781610694322

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Read On...History by Tina Frolund Pdf

Make history come alive! This book helps librarians and teachers as well as readers themselves find books they will enjoy—titles that will animate and explain the past, entertain, and expand their minds. This invaluable resource offers reading lists of contemporary and classic non-fiction history books and historical fiction, covering all time periods throughout the world, and including practically all manner of human endeavors. Every book included is hand-selected as an entertaining and enlightening read! Organized by appeal characteristics, this book will help readers zero in on the history books they will like best—for instance, titles that emphasize character, tell a specific type of historical story, convey a mood, or are presented in a particular setting. Every book listed has been recommended based on the author's research, and has proved to be a satisfying and worthwhile read.

Author : Nigel Smith
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1276 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031128035

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Amazon Fruits: An Ethnobotanical Journey by Nigel Smith Pdf

This is the first comprehensive listing of Amazon fruits from an ethnobotanical perspective. This detailed book covers 50 botanical families, 207 species, in the Amazon including how the people of each region use them. It is lavishly illustrated with high-quality photographs taken by the author, an extensive list of references, and Dr. Smith’s latest, meticulous research. This book should be a foundational work for scholars working in the plant sciences, researchers in ethnobotanical studies, and general interest scholars seeking more detailed information on the latest research by a leading scientist in the Amazon.

Author : John K. Thornton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521727341

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A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820 by John K. Thornton Pdf

An overview of the history of the Atlantic Basin before 1830, describing interactions between the inhabitants of Africa, Europe and North and South America.