In keeping with his mission to help solve Earth's pressing environmental problems, the teenage alien hero Widget and his human friends travel to the Amazon rainforest to save endangered trees.
This book is simultaneously entertaining and depressing, with all the rollicking pessimism you'd expect of a good soap opera or a good political satire."- Kirsten Backstrom, "500 Great Books by Women"
Quito 0 z R. Napo R. Japura ECUADOR PLA C с R. Amazon R. Solimoes Iquitos BRAZIL B Maranon RI R. Ucayali PERU ANDES MOUNTAINS ... Here the waters from glaciers run down into lakes ; from these lakes flow streams that carve a steep path ...
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Footprintfocus Brazilian Amazon is the only guide on the market to cover this popular and legendary destination.
In The Yage Letters - a mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel - he journeys through South America, writing to his friend Allen Ginsberg about his experiments with the strange drug, using it to travel through time ...
Accompanying young Internet millionaires Wallace and Bates on a Brazilian rain forest tour, translator Elizabeth Crossman is taken captive with her traveling companions, whose violent plan for escape threatens them with greater danger.
Não seria o caso de retroceder até a famosa alegoria da caverna em Platão? Certa leitura chapada acabou consagrando a ideia de que, ali, estaria o fundamento de uma pura razão solar, ciência feita só de claridade e transparência, ...
This book proves the US did pay for the rubber, contrary to common belief in Brazil that they did not.
History of head shrinking as practiced by the Jivaro or Shuar Indians of Ecuador and Peru. Explains the process and cultural reasons behind it.
The many different animals that live in a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest try to convince a man with an ax of the importance of not cutting down their home.