Einband:
Kartonierter Einband
Untertitel:
The Story of the Amazon
Herausgeber:
Thames and Hudson
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.10.2009
Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext In his long career of exploration and scholarship, Hemming has become a powerful advocate for the Amazon. The New York Times, John Hemming Describes the passionate struggles that have taken place in order to utilize, protect and understand the wonder that is the Amazon. This book features the adventures and misadventures down the centuries of the explorers, missionaries, indigenous Indians, naturalists, rubber barons, scientists, anthropologists and archaeologists. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
Klappentext
In his long career of exploration and scholarship, Hemming has become a powerful advocate for the Amazon. The New York Times, John Hemming
Zusammenfassung
Describes the passionate struggles that have taken place in order to utilize, protect and understand the wonder that is the Amazon. This book features the adventures and misadventures down the centuries of the explorers, missionaries, indigenous Indians, naturalists, rubber barons, scientists, anthropologists and archaeologists.
Inhalt
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
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