Thursday, August 27, 2009

A LOOK AT BOOKS

Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon
by Hemming, John. 2008
Thames & Hudson, London. 368 pp.

In this history of the Amazon Basin, the author recounts the adventures and misadventures of intrepid explorers, fervent Jesuit ecclesiastics, greedy rubber barons,19th-century botanists, zoologists, fearless advocates of Indian Rights, and the archaeologists and anthropologists who have uncovered the secrets of the Amazon's earliest settlers. Illustrated, some in color.

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