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In his long career of exploration and scholarship, Hemming has become a powerful advocate for the Amazon.The New York Times, John Hemming

Amazonia is one of the most magnificent habitats on earth. Containing the worlds largest river, with more water and a broader basin than any other, it hosts a great expanse of tropical rain forest, home to the planets most luxuriant biological diversity.
The human beings who settled in the region 10,000 years ago learned to live well with its bounty of fish, game, and vegetation. It was not until 1500 that Europeans first saw the Amazon, and, unsurprisingly, the rain forests unique environment has attracted larger-than-life personalities through the centuries. John Hemming recalls the adventures and misadventures of intrepid explorers, fervent Jesuit ecclesiastics, and greedy rubber barons who enslaved thousands of 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 Amazons earliest settlers.
Hemming discusses the current threat to Amazonia as forests are destroyed to feed the worlds appetite for timber, beef, and soybeans, and he vividly describes the passionate struggles taking place in order to utilize, protect, and understand the Amazon. 20 color, 50 b&w illustrations

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JOHN HEMMING Tree of Rivers The Story of the Amazon - photo 1

JOHN HEMMING

Tree of Rivers

The Story of the Amazon

John Hemming is an expert on the Amazon having visited over forty - photo 2

John Hemming

is an expert on the Amazon, having visited over forty indigenous tribes and been on many research expeditions, including explorations of totally unknown territories. His previous books include the prize-winning The Conquest of the Incas and a trilogy on the history of Brazilian Indians. He was for 21 years Director of the Royal Geographical Society in London.

Other titles by John Hemming published by Thames & Hudson include:

Monuments of the Incas

Other titles of interest published by Thames & Hudson include:

The Great Naturalists

The Great Explorers

The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Natural World: Unlocking the Secrets of Our Planet

The Earth from the Air

Latin Spirit 365 Days: The Wisdom, Landscape and Peoples of Latin America

Sebastio Salgado: An Uncertain Grace

See our websites:

www.thamesandhudson.com

www.thamesandhudsonusa.com

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First descents of the Amazon River - photo 3

First descents of the Amazon River

A black-water river in Venezuelan Amazonia where the lack of sediment from - photo 4

A black-water river in Venezuelan Amazonia, where the lack of sediment from ancient rocks and the tannin from decaying vegetation make waters as black as coffee. Forests are at their most exuberant on river banks, because of the sun and water. (Photo John Hemming)

Palm trees are wonderfully useful to man from the earliest foragers to - photo 5

Palm trees are wonderfully useful to man, from the earliest foragers to present-day riverbankers. Graceful Buriti palms ( Mauritia flexuosa ) soar to 30 metres (100 feet), and supply nutritious red fruits, fronds for roofing, fibres for baskets and hammocks, and trunks for beams. (Photo Dudu Tresca)

This caterpillar of a hawk moth Pseudosphinx tetrio is an example of - photo 6

This caterpillar of a hawk moth ( Pseudosphinx tetrio ) is an example of Batesian mimicry, named after the nineteenth-century naturalist Henry Walter Bates. A predator thinks that such a gaudily coloured insect must be poisonous, so this edible caterpillars only defence is to mimic such ostentation. (Photo James Ratter)

Most creatures in a tropical forest are high in the canopy or nocturnal or - photo 7

Most creatures in a tropical forest are high in the canopy, or nocturnal, or brilliantly camouflaged, like this long-horned grasshopper ( Tettigoniidae family) mimicking a leaf and twig. (Photo William Milliken)

Most of Amazonias hundreds of species of snake are harmless to man but not - photo 8

Most of Amazonias hundreds of species of snake are harmless to man, but not these deadly rattlesnakes ( Crotalus terrificus ). They hunt by night, attracted by the warmth of their prey. (Photo John Hemming)

White-lipped peccary Tayassu pecari move in large packs scouring the - photo 9

White-lipped peccary ( Tayassu pecari ) move in large packs, scouring the forest floor for nuts and roots. If threatened, these powerful animals attack fearlessly and are one of the few animals that can hurt humans. (Photo Haroldo Palo)

The largest indigenous nation the Yanomami live in forested hills between - photo 10

The largest indigenous nation, the Yanomami, live in forested hills between Brazil and Venezuela. Here a mother decorates herself with red annatto dye, feathers gummed to her hairline, and palm-spine feline whiskers. (Photo John Hemming)

Yanomami archers use immensely powerful bows and two-metre-long 612-foot - photo 11

Yanomami archers use immensely powerful bows and two-metre-long (612-foot) arrows, often tipped with curare poison and with different points for different types of game. They carry chewing tobacco in a wad in their lower lips. (Photo John Hemming)

Kayap women of central Brazil dye their skin with black genipapo dye for - photo 12

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