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Tree of Rivers ‘“ The Story of the Amazon

Tree of Rivers ‘“ The Story of the Amazon by John Hemming discusses the past, present and future one of the most magnificent habitats on earth: containing the world’™s largest river, with more water and a broader basin than any other, Amazonia also hosts a great expanse of tropical rain forest which is home to the planet’™s most luxuriant biological diversity.John Hemming recalls the adventures and misadventures of intrepid explorers, fervent Jesuit ecclesiastics, and greedy rubber barons who enslaved thousands of Amazonian Indians in the relentless quest for profit. He also tells of nineteenth-century botanists, fearless advocates for Indian rights, and the archaeologists and anthropologists who have uncovered the secrets of the Amazon’™s earliest settlers.Hemming discusses the current threat to Amazonia as forests are destroyed to feed the world’™s appetite for timber, beef, and soybeans, and he vividly describes the passionate struggles taking place in order to utilize, protect, and understand the Amazon.

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