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.
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John Hemming was Director and Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society in London from 1975 to 1996.
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Librería: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Hardback. Condición: Fair. Describes the struggles that have taken place in order to utilize, protect and understand the wonder that is the Amazon. This account recalls the adventures and misadventures down the centuries of the explorers, missionaries, indigenous Indians, naturalists, rubber barons, scientists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and political extremists. Nº de ref. del artículo: 00110520785
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Librería: World of Books Inc, Montgomery, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Hardback. Condición: Fair. Describes the struggles that have taken place in order to utilize, protect and understand the wonder that is the Amazon. This account recalls the adventures and misadventures down the centuries of the explorers, missionaries, indigenous Indians, naturalists, rubber barons, scientists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and political extremists. Nº de ref. del artículo: CIN0500514011A
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Librería: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: Lost Paddle Books, IOBA, Albany, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: Andrew Isles Natural History Books, Prahran, VIC, Australia
Octavo, dustwrapper,368 pp.,illustrations. 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. Also available in paperback [stock id 30685]. Nº de ref. del artículo: 28256
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Librería: Stirling Books, Stirling, Reino Unido
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Librería: Stephen White Books, Bradford, Reino Unido
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Librería: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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