Author: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN: 1630833207
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
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Jeff’s Uncle Roy runs a museum and is always zooming off to strange places. Now Uncle Roy is taking Jeff with him to the steamy Amazon jungle. Maybe they’ll track down crocodiles or poisonous snakes or jaguars for Uncle Roy’s museum. Wrong! On this trip, Uncle Roy is looking for . . . butterflies. Butterflies?
Author: Roger Harris
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN: 9781841621739
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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This new edition has been completely revised with updated information on hotels, lodges and tour operators. It contains a detailed and illustrated natural history section on native species and habitats. The Amazon is an ideal location for eco-travellers, naturalists, sports enthusiasts and explorers. Travellers are given sound advice on responsible travel and planning their own expedition.
Author: Algot Lange
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Category : Amazonas (Brazil)
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Author: Algot Lange
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Category : Pará (Brazil : State)
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Author: H. Sioli
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400965427
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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The Amazon -that name was given to the biggest river on earth and is often used for the whole area of its basin too. This geographical region is currently referred to as Amazonia, thus emphasizing the peculiar character of its aquatic and terrestrial reaches. The Amazon embodied the dream of many a naturalist to explore what for a long time was a terra incognita. In recent years, however, Amazonia has emerged as a main centre for 'development' by some of the countries in which it lies and by foreign industrialized nations. The development projects and enterprises have aroused woridwide interest and have given rise to discussions on their aims and their consequences to the Amazonian nature. Limnological and ecological investigations in Amazonia started only about 40 years ago. The editor had the good fortune to partake in them from the very beginning. He spent his decisive years in Amazonia, and dedicated his life's work to that research and to that country and the Amazonian people. Nearing the end of his scicntific activities, hc is gratcful to bc ablc to summarizc in this book most of the knowledge we possess at present of Amazonian limnology and landscape ecology.
Author: Ken Filing
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490761675
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
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A tribe of Amazon women have fought a devastating battle with an Indian tribe in the Amazon Basin. Prior to the battle the beautiful blonde leader became pregnant from an encounter with a missionary doctor. She gives birth to a girl who, some day, is destined to be a leader of the clan. An earthquake kills the entire village of Amazon women except for the young girl who goes on to grow and prosper while on a quest to locate her father. Many adventures and pitfalls occur while she travels the rain forest looking for the village where her father is a missionary doctor. Follow her adventures as she too becomes a doctor and searches for a cure to a devastating tropical disease.
Author: William Lawrence Adams
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1481773526
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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The Republic of Bolivia, as it existed prior to the termination of the war with Chile in 1882, had an area of 597,271 square miles, exclusive of the territory of El Chaco, claimed alike by Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina. The population, though never carefully determined, was estimated by the best Bolivian authorities as two and a half million, and of this, about half consisted of savage and domesticated Indians. In other words, a population about equal to that of the State of Massachusetts occupied a territory three and a half times greater in area than that covered by our ten New England and Middle States combined. During the colonial days of South America, Bolivia was a part of Peru, having been subdued and annexed by Hernando, a brother of Francisco Pizarro, and in 1559, it was formed into the Audiencia of Charcas, or Upper Peru. The haughtiest of all the old Spanish Conquistadores, says a prominent writer, settled in the country and clustered their titled families around its ten thousand open silver-mines. slogan: Keep Faith in Self and, Have Fun Trying W. L. Gunny ADAMS
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 2004
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Author: Patricia Chapple Wright
Publisher: Lantern Books
ISBN: 1590564227
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343
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Before primatologist Patricia Chapple Wright became the world's foremost expert on lemurs, she was enchanted by another primate—Aotus, the owl monkey, or "monkey of the night." But along her journey to discover the behavior of these unique nocturnal creatures, Wright finds more than she expected about family, human nature, and herself. It all starts in a New York City pet shop when Wright and her husband buy an owl monkey whose lively and rambunctious ways soon lead the young couple to South America to acquire him a mate. But while Wright's monkey family is growing, her own begins to fall apart when her husband leaves her and her daughter. Undeterred by her lack of academic experience, Wright sets out as a single mother to study primate behavior in the wild, including a year at a research station in the remote jungles of Peru. There she encounters jaguars, poisonous snakes, army ants, and massive floods that threaten her and her daughter's lives, as well as moments of great clarity and beauty. From New York City in the 1960s to the depths of the Amazon in the 1970s and 80s, this story of one woman's transformation from Brooklyn housewife to an accomplished scientist will captivate fans of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. High Moon Over the Amazon is a thrilling memoir of adventure, inspiration, and of falling in love with a species not so unlike our own.
Author: Charles Reginald Enock
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Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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