Product Description

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. Hemmingâs 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83944 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages

The Sunday Times
'Superb history'

The Financial Times Magazine
'John Hemming's loving knowledge of the Amazon's forests and tribes is compelling...'

Sir John Ure, Country Life
'...for anyone who wants a single-volume introduction to the world's greatest river, this is the best they will find.'