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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Author: Candice Millard
ISBN-10: 0767913736
ISBN-13: 9780767913737
Published: 2006-10-10
Publisher: Anchor
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Book Description:
At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron.After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever.Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived.From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, here is Candice Millard’s dazzling debut.
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Rain forests: A nonfiction companion to Afternoon on the Amazon (Magic tree house research guide)
Author: Will Osborne
ISBN-10: 0439454395
ISBN-13: 9780439454391
Published: 2003
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
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Magic Tree House Research Guides are now Magic Tree House Fact Trackers! Track the facts with Jack and Annie! When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #5: Afternoon on the Amazon, they had lots of questions. How much rain falls in a rain forest? What is the world's heaviest insect? What the heck is a sausage tree? Why is it important to preserve the world's rain forests? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts. Filled with up-to-date information, photos, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discovered in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures.
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One River
Author: Wade Davis
ISBN-10: 0684834960
ISBN-13: 9780684834962
Published: 1997-08-05
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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In the 1940s, biologist Richard Evans Schultes uncovered many of the secrets of the rain forest, relying not only on his own prodigious investigations, but on the wisdom passed down by local tribes. Thirty years later his student, Wade Davis, followed in his footsteps. Two interwoven tales of scientific adventure bring to life the riches of the Amazon basin and bear witness to the destruction of its indigenous culture and natural wonders over two generations.
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Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America
Author: Adrian Forsyth
ISBN-10: 0684187108
ISBN-13: 9780684187105
Published: 1987-01-29
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
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A Simon&Schuster eBook
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Rainforest Home Remedies: The Maya Way To Heal Your Body and Replenish Your Soul
Author: Rosita Arvigo
ISBN-10: 006251637X
ISBN-13: 9780062516374
Published: 2001-01-09
Publisher: HarperOne
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Rainforest Healing from Your Home and Garden Find alternatives to chemical anti-depressants and painkillers in your spice rack. Learn about natural anti-itch salves for insect bites. Soothe and relieve envy, grief, sadness, and fear the Maya way. Rid your house of negative energy with a Maya cleansing ritual. Try the easy-to-make bronchitis remedy.
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The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals
Author: Leslie Taylor
ISBN-10: 0757001440
ISBN-13: 9780757001444
Published: 2004-11-01
Publisher: Square One Publishers
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Rainforests contain an amazing abundance of plant life—over half of the planet’s vegetation. For centuries, tribal shamans have successfully used these botanicals as remedies for various health disorders. Now, scientists have begun to uncover the medicinal qualities of these plants, which offer new approaches to health and healing. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs is a unique guide to these herbs and their uses. Detailing more than seventy rainforest botanicals, this book presents the history of the herbs’ uses by indigenous peoples and describes current usage by natural health practitioners throughout the world. Discover Amazon healers’ traditional knowledge, as well as the clinical studies that support what shamans have known for ages. Essential dosage and preparation methods are provided, while at-a-glance tables help you locate the best botanicals for each disorder. Here is a unique book that offers a blend of ancient and modern knowledge in an accessible reference format.
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Monkeys Are Made of Chocolate: Exotic and Unseen Costa Rica
Author: Jack Ewing
ISBN-10: 0965809811
ISBN-13: 9780965809818
Published: 2005-02-15
Publisher: Pixyjack Press
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Discover the mysterious and fascinating ways in which animals and plants—and people—interact with one another in the rainforests of Costa Rica. Author and naturalist Jack Ewing shares a wealth of observations and experiences, gathered from more than three decades of living in southwestern Costa Rica, home to some of the most prolific and diverse ecosystems on Earth. More than just a simple collection of essays, Monkeys are Made of Chocolate is a testament to the wonder of life in all its countless guises, as seen through the eyes of a man with a gift for subtle discernment and a natural flair for storytelling.
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Naked in Eden: My Adventure and Awakening in the Australian Rainforest
Author: Robin Easton
ISBN-10: 0757315127
ISBN-13: 9780757315121
Published: 2010-09-01
Publisher: HCI
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'You must be mad to live in the bloody jungle, mates.' Not mad exactly, just disconnected and seeking more meaning and adventure in their lives. An eccentric free spirit who never quite fit in, Robin Easton saw her soul mate in Ian—a rugged, rowdy Aussie who wanted out of the confines of his family's business. Together they planned their Great Escape: to live off the grid in a remote area of Australia's Daintree Rainforest. But as their Jeep wound its way closer to the tiny black dot on the map, Robin couldn't have fathomed just how the jungle would test her mentally, physically, and spiritually. As she came face to face with her fears of deadly snakes, leeches, and man-eating crocodiles, she began to unravel the mysteries of life and death, love and loss, and nature and humankind. Hidden in the forest mist, she discovered our biological relationship to the natural world and our unique place in it.
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Breakfast of Biodiversity: The Truth about Rain Forest Destruction
Author: John Vandermeer
ISBN-10: 0935028668
ISBN-13: 9780935028669
Published: 1995-03
Publisher: Food First
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Ecologists Vandermeer and Perfecto look beyond simplistic explanations to show exactly why biodiversity is in such jeopardy around the world and what steps must be taken to slow the ravaging of rain forests.
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An Environmental History of Latin America (New Approaches to the Americas)
Author: Shawn William Miller
ISBN-10: 0521848539
ISBN-13: 9780521848534
Published: 2007-08-27
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This book narrates the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present urban agglomerations, the work offers an original synthesis of the current scholarship on Latin America's environmental history and argues that tropical nature played a central role in shaping the region's historical development. Seeing Latin America's environmental past from the perspective of many centuries illustrates that human civilizations, ancient and modern, have been simultaneously more powerful and more vulnerable than previously thought.
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