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Tree of rivers : the story of the Amazon / John Hemming.
LIBRA F2546 .H44 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hemming, John, 1935-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Amazon River Region--History.
- Amazon River Region.
- Physical Description:
- 368 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thames & Hudson, 2008.
- Contents:
- 1 Arrival of Strangers 13
- 2 Anarchy on the Amazon 48
- 3 The Empty River 73
- 4 Directorate to Cabanagem 97
- 5 A Naturalist's Paradise 129
- 6 The Rubber Boom 175
- 7 The Black Side of Rubber 198
- 8 Explorers and Indians 232
- 9 Archaeologists Find Early Man 270
- 10 Planes, Chainsaws and Bulldozers 289
- 11 The Largest River in the Largest Forest 325.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-363) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780500514016
- 0500514011
- OCLC:
- 244629058
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