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Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon by John Hemming Publisher Comments Amazonia is one of the most magnificent habitats on earth. Containing the world's largest river, with more water and a broader basin than any other, it hosts a great expanse of tropical rain forest, home to the planet's most luxuriant biological... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Patagonia: At the Bottom of the World by Dick Lutz Synopsis This book contains an account of a trip to Patagonia along with extensive information about its wildlife and history. It includes information about the early explorers and the Indians (now extinct) who lived in the area for thousands of years. Also... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Andes: A Cultural History (Landscapes of the Imagination) by Jason Wilson Publisher Comments The Andes form the backbone of South America. Irradiating from Cuzco--the symbolic "navel" of the indigenous world--the mountain range was home to an extraordinary theocratic empire and civilization, the Incas, who built stone temples, roads, palaces... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Andean Cocaine Industry by Patrick L Clawson Publisher Comments It is commonly known that the Andean nations of Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia are the international centers of cocaine production. But until now, there has been no comprehensive view of this billion dollar industry. Using never-before unearthed information... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Land of Ghosts: The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far Western Amazonia by David G. Campbell Publisher Comments With great narrative, Campbell takes readers with him as he travels 1,200 miles up the Amazon, turns left up the Rio Jurua, and continues for another 28 days to the town of Cruzeiro do Sul where he collects three friends and continues further into the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Patagonia: At the Bottom of the World by Dick Lutz Publisher Comments This book describes this beautiful, almost unknown, region at the southern tip of South America. Closer to Antarctica than any other place on earth, Patagonia is an environment with many facets. Part is high desert, part is forested, part is mountainous,... (read more) List Price $15.16 Your price: $13.45 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Kidnapped in the Amazon Jungle by F Bruce Lamb Publisher Comments This is a spirited retelling of the true story of Manuel Cordova-Rios, who as a young man was abducted by a tribe of Indians while on a rubber-cutting expedition in the Amazon jungle in 1907. This first-person account relates Cordova-Rios' terrifying... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Amazon Past Present & Future by Alain Gheerbrant Publisher Comments Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $1.75 Used - Trade Paper
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The River Sea: The Amazon in History, Myth, and Legend by Marshall De Bruhl Synopsis Since its discovery by Europeans in 1500, explorers, visionaries, soldiers of fortune, men of God, scientists, and slavers have been drawn to the legendary Amazon. "The River Sea" is a sweeping chronicle of those brave and hardy souls whose efforts to... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Three Years Slavery Among the Patagonians by Auguste Guinnard Publisher Comments For three years, Auguste Guinnard was a captive and slave of the native Indians in Patagonia. His account of his time there is a thrilling tale of endurance and perseverance, and provides a rare insight into a culture as alien to the author as it was... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Andes by Michael Jacobs Synopsis For centuries, the Andes have caught the imagination of travelers, inspiring fear and wonder. The groundbreaking scientist Alexander von Humboldt claimed that “everything here is grander and more majestic than in the Swiss Alps, the Pyrenees, the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Land of Ghosts: The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far Western Amazonia by David G Campbell Publisher Comments The western Amazon is the last frontier, as wild a west as Earth has ever known. For thirty years David G. Campbell has been exploring this lush wilderness, which contains more species than ever existed anywhere at any time in the four-billion-year... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Shabono: A Visit to a Remote and Magical World in the South American Rain Forest by Florinda Donner Publisher Comments 'Shabono' – the name of the hamlets of palm-thatched dwellings where the Yanomama Indians of Venezuela and southern Brazil live – recounts the vivid and unforgettable experience of anthropologist Florinda Donner's time with an indigenous... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Shabono by Florinda Donner Publisher Comments Shabano -- the name for the hamlets of palm-thatched dwellings where the Yanomama Indians of Venezuela and southern Brazil live -- recounts the vivid and unforgettable experience of anthropologists Florinda Donner's time with an indigenous tribe in the... (read more) Your price: $2.98 Used - Trade Paper
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The green cathedral :sustainable development of Amazonia by Juan De Onis Publisher Comments When the first Iberian adventurers discovered the Amazon and the native Indian and tribal peoples living along its banks, they believed they had stumbled upon what one traveler later called "the unfinished last page of Genesis." Legends sprang up of El... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Last Cannibals a South American Oral His by Ellen B Basso Publisher Comments The Kalapalo are a Carib-speaking group of Brazilian Indians who live in the Alto (Upper) Xingu region around the headwaters of the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon. In this major discourse-centered study of their culture, Ellen Basso transcribes... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Andes by Michael Jacobs Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Out of the Shadows by Jo Fisher Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Viva South America by Oliver Balch Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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White Gold by Ghillean Jungjohann List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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