The Amazon

  • The Amazon
    By Alex Robinson, Gardênia Robinson, David Stott

    This gloriously illustrated guide encompasses the entire Amazon River region, including historical and geographical information; articles on conservation; and a cultural perspective on the Amazon Indians.

  • The Amazon
    By Roger Harris, Peter Hutchison

    Growing to a maximum 1.2m , coralsnakes have powerful venom . ... The most familiar coralsnake is red , yellow / white , and black , but they can be uniformly black or red , or red and yellow , bi - colored black and white , or red and ...

  • The Amazon: Land Without History
    By Euclides da Cunha

    Translated into Victorian English, which mirrors the rich and grandiose style of da Cunha's writing, this book offers a view of the continuously changing ecology of the Amazon, a testimony to the Brazilian colonial enterprise, and its ...

  • The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know
    By Mark J. Plotkin

    And these forests are hot, humid and wet, receiving in the Amazon, on average from 60 to 120 inches of rain per year - as compared to a mere 25 inches in London or 45 inches in Manhattan.

  • The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know®
    By Mark J. Plotkin

    The Amazon also serves as home to millions of people. Approximately seventy tribes of isolated and uncontacted people are concentrated in the western Amazon, completely dependent on the land and river.

  • The Amazon: River in a Rain Forest
    By Molly Aloian

    Introduces the Amazon River, describing its sources; its course through nine South American countries; the plants, animals, and indigenous peoples that live in its river basin; and the threats represented by pollution and deforestation.

  • The Amazon: Land without History
    By Euclides da Cunha

    Mixing scientific jargon and poetic language, the essays in Land Without History provide breathtaking descriptions of the Amazonian rivers and the ever-changing nature that surrounds them.

  • The Amazon: Manaus and Belem, Brazil: Frommer's Shortcuts
    By Frommer's Short

    The Amazon: Manaus and Belem, Brazil: Frommer's Shortcuts

  • The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know®
    By Mark J. Plotkin

    The Amazon also serves as home to millions of people. Approximately seventy tribes of isolated and uncontacted people are concentrated in the western Amazon, completely dependent on the land and river.

  • The Amazon: Limnology and landscape ecology of a mighty tropical river and its basin
    By H. Sioli

    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.