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Amazon:
From The Floodplains To The Clouds
photos by Alex Webb
After
The Trees: Living On The Transamazon Highway
by Douglas Ian Stewart
This lively, readable study
explores why colonization of the Amazon fell short of the planners' vision.
Delving into issues of land distribution, soil ecology, and the colonists'
adaptation to local ecosystems, Douglas Stewart uncovers the forces that
drive deforestation. Recounting fascinating stories of the colonists he met,
Stewart also describes how small farmers have banded together during the
past decade to overcome the challenges of the frontier. Their collective
action, he asserts, if backed by government policy, could lead to
progressive land redistribution and wiser use. This broad-ranging look at
why deforestation has occurred in the Amazon, what its consequences are, and
what can be done to halt and remedy the process should be read by everyone
concerned with preserving the Latin American environment.
--book description
The
Amazon (Great Rivers)
by Michael Pollard
The
Amazon: Bradt Travel Guide
by Roger Harris
Amazon:
A Young Reader's Look
At The Last Frontier
by Peter Lourie
Big
Mouth: The Amazon Speaks
by Stephen Nugent
Big Mouth is about modern Amazonia. It is also about the intense and frequently fetishistic and myth-ridden coverage which Amazonia has received in recent years. University of London lecturer Stephen Nugent first went to Amazonia in 1975 and has returned many times since. His interest is in the real Amazonia, not the unspoiled nature preserve of first-world poseurs nor the bottomless well of natural resources dreamt of by urban Brazilians. It's a place where people live trapped between a neo-colonial present and a post-colonial future where only high-minded outsiders know what is best for them.--book description
Brazil:
Amazon And Pantanal
Ecotravellers Wildlife Guides Series
by David Pearson and Les Belesky
Brazilian
Adventure
by Peter Fleming
While novelist Ian Fleming is best known for bringing adventurer James Bond to life, his writer brother Peter Fleming, a reporter for The Times of London, survived South American misadventures so challenging they make 007's high-risk existence seem placid in comparison. Lured by a mysterious newspaper ad, Fleming sails with an expedition to Brazil in the 1930s, attempting to answer unresolved questions about a team of explorers, headed by a British Colonel Fawcett, that disappeared in 1925. Once arrived in Brazil, Fleming's expedition falls apart, being equipped with few provisions, erroneous maps, and a despotic leader who proves to be less than fearless in the Amazon jungles. The team soon splits, with former colleagues battling the elements and competing with each other in a race for time and a search for truth. A finely crafted travel tale, with prose that's sometimes as dense and colorful as the jungles it's set in, Brazilian Adventure manages to turn the harrowing into cheeky commentary and barely contained comedy. --Melissa Rossi
The Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Global
Ecopolitics, Development And Democracy
by Luiz C. Barbosa
Barbosa (sociology, San Francisco State
University) provides a global, world-systemic analysis of the problem of
deforestation of the
Brazilian Amazon Rainforest.
He shows how changes in global ecopolitics demanding sustainable development,
coupled with the onset of democracy in Brazil, substantially altered the battle
over the future of Amazonia. He describes deforestation in the region in the
context of an expanding frontier of global capitalism, and compares Amazon
experiences with those of Costa Rica, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
The Catfish Connection: Ecology, Migration,
And Conservation Of Amazon Predators
by Michael Goulding and Ronaldo Barthem
Disenchantment In The Amazonian Imagination
by Candace Slater
Entangled Edens: Visions Of The Amazon
by Candace Slater
Exploration
Of The Valley Of The Amazon
by William Lewis Herndon
Floods Of Fortune: Ecology And
Economy Along The Amazon
by Michael Goulding, Nigel J.H.
Smith and Dennis J. Mahara
The Healing Forest: Medicinal And Toxic
Plants Of The Northwest Amazonia
by Richard Evans Schultes and Robert F. Raffauf
In The
Rainforest: Report From
A Strange, Beautiful, Imperiled World
by Catherine Caulfield
"I recommend
In The Rainforest
as scientific journalism at its best, and [Caufield's] book as the one to read
to become informed about the tropical crisis. Caufield traveled the world, went
to the difficult places, sometimes beautiful and often dispiriting, mastered the
important ideas, and talked to an impressive number of people on all sides of
the issues. . . . There are villains in abundance: corrupt government agents who
aid in the destruction of native tribes, greedy caballero landowners, and
even the governmental planners who with the best of intentions rush heedlessly
toward the environmental degradation of their own countries."--E. O. Wilson,
Science
In
Trouble Again: A Journey Between
The Orinoco And The Amazon
by Redmond O'Hanlon
Insight Guide: Amazon Wildlife
Into
The Heart: One Man's Pursuit Of Love
And Knowledge
Among The Yanomami
by Kenneth Good
The Lost Amazon: The Photographic
Journey of Richard Evans Schultes
by Richard Schultes
Maracá: The Biodiversity And Environment
Of An Amazonian Rainforest
edited by William Milliken and James A.
Ratter
The Naturalist On The River Amazons
by Henry Walter Bates
One
River: Explorations And
Discoveries
In The Amazon Rain Forest
by Wade Davis
The prodigious biological and cultural riches
of the vast Amazon rain forest are being lost at a horrendous rate, according to
the author, often without yielding their secrets to the Western world. During
his years in the South American jungle, ethnobotanist Davis (The Serpent and the
Rainbow) has done much to preserve some of these treasures. He tells two
entwined tales here: his own explorations in the '70s and those of his mentor,
the great Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, beginning in the '30s.
Both men have been particularly interested in the psychoactive and medicinal
properties of the plants of the Amazon basin and approach their subject with a
reverence for the cultural context in which the plants are used. The contrasting
experiences of two explorers, a mere generation apart, starkly demonstrates how
much has already been destroyed in the rain forest.
--Publishers Weekly
The
Pantanal: Understanding And
Preserving The World's Largest Wetland
edited by Frederick Swarts
Running
The Amazon
a remarkable kayaking trip in 1985 from
the Amazon's Andean source to the Atlantic
by Joe Kane
The Smithsonian Atlas Of The Amazon
A beautifully illustrated volume
with 150 color maps,
289 color photos, and details of 14 rivers
by Michael Goulding, Ronald Barthem
and Efrem Jorge Gondim Ferreira
So Fruitful A Fish: Ecology, Conservation,
And Aquaculture Of The Amazon's Tambaqui
by Michael Guilding
The
Spirit Of The Rainforest:
A Yanomamo Shaman's Story
by Mark Ritchie
Tales
Of A Shaman's Apprentice:
An Ethnobotanist Searches For New
Medicines In The Amazon Rain Forest
by Mark Plotkin
Tristes
Tropiques
by Claude Levi-Strauss
Unnatural
Selection: The Yanomami,
The Kayapo & The Onslaught Of Civilization
by Linda Rabben
Varzea: Diversity, Development And Conservation
Of Amazonia's Whitewater Floodplains
Edited by Christine Padoch, Jose Marcio Ayres,
Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez, Andrew Henderson
With
Broadax And Firebrand:
The Destruction Of The Atlantic Rain Forest
by Warren Dean
Yanoama:
The Story Of Helena Valero,
Girl Kidnapped By Amazonian Indians
by Helena Valero
The
Yanomamo
the classic and controversial anthropological
study, a standard in college courses for decades
by Napoleon A. Chagnon
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