Tree Of Rivers Pa

by Hemming,John

• ISBN13: 9780500288207
• ISBN10: 0500288208
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-30
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Summary

This enthralling book brilliantly describes the passionate struggles that have taken place in order to utilize, protect and understand the wonder that is the Amazon. Hemmings riveting account recalls the adventures and misadventures down the centuries of the explorers, missionaries, indigenous Indians, naturalists, rubber barons, scientists, anthropologists, archaeologists, political extremists, prospectors and many more, who have been in thrall to the Amazon, the largest river in the world, with the greatest expanse of tropical rain forest and most luxuriant biological diversity on earth.

Author Biography

John Hemming is an expert on the Amzon, having visited over forty indigenous tribes and been on many research expeditions, including explorations of totally unknown territories. His previous books include the prize-winning The Conquest of the Incas and a trilogy on the history of Brazilian Indians. He was for twenty-one years Director of the Royal Geographical Society in London.

Table of Contents

Arrival of Strangers	p. 13
Anarchy on the Amazon	p. 48
The Empty River	p. 73
Directorate to Cabanagem	p. 97
A Naturalist’s Paradise	p. 129
The Rubber Boom	p. 175
The Black Side of Rubber	p. 198
Explorers and Indians	p. 232
Archaeologists Find Early Man	p. 270
Planes, Chainsaws and Bulldozers	p. 289
The Largest River in the Largest Forest	p. 325
MAPS
First descents of the Amazon River	p. 8
The Colonial Era and Cabanagem	p. 98
Routes of nineteenth century naturalists	p. 130
The rubber boom	p. 176
The twentieth century, and archaeological sites	p. 270
Protected areas and highways	p. 290
References	p. 346
Picture Credits	p. 364
Index	p. 365
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