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Man In The Amazon
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Author : Charles Wagley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Man In The Amazon written by Charles Wagley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Amazon River Valley categories.
Man In The Amazon
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Author : Charles Wagley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Man In The Amazon written by Charles Wagley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Amazon River Valley categories.
Amazon Men
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Author : Adam Courtenay
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2015-08-18
Amazon Men written by Adam Courtenay and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-18 with Amazon River Region categories.
Environmentalists will tell us the depredations visited by man on the Amazon are recent - this is erroneous. They also believe they are the first to respect and save it - this is also untrue. Killing and caressing the Amazon has been a pastime for nearly 500 years, ever since European man first set eyes on this impenetrable ocean of green. Sometimes he has laid siege to it. At other times he has tried to understand, harness and culture it. At just about all times there has been an ongoing war of attrition between the greatest eco-system and the greatest predator. Up to now, the predator has failed. 'Amazon Men' is about these two types of men - those who have tried to conquer and exploit the Amazon and those who have tried to understand it and savour it. In both cases it is has remained beyond their grasp. It is about conquistadors and botanists, colonisers and human rights activists, slave traders and philanthropists - that is, men who have variously tried to conquer, rework, map, enslave and save the region and its river system, each according to the needs and zeitgeist of their time in history. 'Amazon Men' is a region's history revealed through the motivations of men. Conquistadors Francisco de Orellana and Lope de Aguirre play their parts as representatives of the Age of Discovery. Charles Marie de la Condamine is a perfect foil for the Age of Enlightenment. Alexander von Humboldt appears as a scientist of the Romantic age, seeking unity in the midst of chaos. Walter Hardenburg represents the machine age, defying the industrial imperatives of his time to oppose unfettered colonial capitalism. Sydney Possuelo, the greatest living Amazonian explorer, represents the ongoing conflict between modern expansion and environmental causes. This book asks questions that most history texts avoid. Over 500 years, did men confront the forest based on the prejudices and attitudes of their time? Or were they free to think, to discern the forest for what it truly was? What do their respective experiences tell us about our attitude to the unexplored and unknown recesses of the planet? This is not the story of a forest, but rather man's contradictory and complex responses to phenomena beyond his scope and ken. The stories of 'Amazon Men' are punctuated by deeds of bravery and acts of brilliance, but also by forgotten holocausts where guns, germs and steel have all played their roles.
Lost In The Amazon
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Author : Stephen Kirkpatrick
language : en
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Release Date : 2005-07-10
Lost In The Amazon written by Stephen Kirkpatrick and has been published by HarperChristian + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-10 with Self-Help categories.
In 1995, Stephen Kirkpatrick joined a five-man expedition into the remote jungles of the Peruvian Amazon. Kirkpatrick's assignment was to document an area of the rainforest that had never before been photographed, nor by most accounts, ever explored by white men. Within hours of their departure, an inaccurate map and a series of bad decisions leave the group hopelessly lost in the depths of the Amazon jungle. What began as a career-making photo expedition quickly turned into a desperate struggle for survival. The five men battle poisonous reptiles, hungry bugs, torrential rains, brutal heat, and an unforgiving landscape in an attempt to find their way back to civilization. They soon learn that survival is not only a physical, but a mental and spiritual challenge as well. Lost in the Amazon is a gripping, sometimes humorous, and ultimately inspirational story about the human drive to survive, and about clinging to faith in the worst circumstances imaginable.
Amazon Town
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Author : Charles Wagley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
Amazon Town written by Charles Wagley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with categories.
Man In The Amazon
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Author : Charles Wagley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Man In The Amazon written by Charles Wagley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with categories.
Amazon Town
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Author : Charles Walter Wagley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Amazon Town written by Charles Walter Wagley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with categories.
Change In The Amazon Basin Man S Impact On Forests And Rivers
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Author : John Hemming
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1985
Change In The Amazon Basin Man S Impact On Forests And Rivers written by John Hemming and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Amazon River Region categories.
The Man Who Discovered The Amazon
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Author : Ronald Syme
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
The Man Who Discovered The Amazon written by Ronald Syme and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Amazon River categories.
In 1541 Francisco de Orellana, with twenty-four Spaniards and two hundred Indians, tramped through the hostile South American jungle to join Gonzalo Pizarro and search for the priceless cinnamon forests of the New World. Later Pizarro's decision to send Orellana and some of his men down the unknown Amazon in search of food initiated an eight-months' voyage and its almost incredible ordeals. (Publisher).
Amazon Town
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Author : Charles Wagley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Amazon Town written by Charles Wagley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with categories.