Download or read book Journey Along the Amazon written by Alex Woolf and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine traveling thousands of miles downriver by boat and encountering deadly poison dart frogs and anacondas as well as friendly pink river dolphins and manatees. A first-person narrative guides readers through the twists and turns of South America's famous Amazon River. Colorful maps and photographs on each page aid navigation, while text offers interesting facts about the peoples and places along the route to the Atlantic Ocean. Important history, geography, and science topics are highlighted, while the uncertain future of the Amazon rainforest and its wildlife is particularly stressed.
Download or read book Walking the Amazon written by Ed Stafford and published by Ebury Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 2 April 2008, Ed Stafford began his attempt to become the first man ever to walk the entire length of the Amazon river. He has crossed the whole of South America from the Pacific coast of Peru to the mouth of the Amazon River on the Atlantic coast of Brazil. He is set to finish in August 2010. The dangers have been great - from piranhas, crocodiles and killer bees to injuries and tropical rain storms, Ed's journey has demanded extreme physical and mental strength. It is also an adventure with a purpose as Ed is using the trip to help raise people's awareness of current environmental issues. He has had unprecedented access to local communities indigenous communities and witnessed first-hand the effects of deforestation. Ultimately though, it is an account of a world-first expedition and is designed to draw attention to the complexities of the Amazon rainforest. Walking the Amazon will take readers on the most daring journey along the world's greatest river and through the most bio-diverse habitat on earth.
Download or read book Amazon Journey written by Gare Thompson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of how rain forests work in the Amazon River Region.
Download or read book Amazon Odyssey Four Journeys One World written by Aparup ROY and published by Pencil. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Amazon Odyssey: Four Journeys, One World," follows the captivating adventure of four university studentsHitesh, Gabriele, Alice, and Karlventuring into the unexplored depths of the Amazon rainforest during the early 1600s. United by their thirst for adventure and a desire to uncover the secrets of this ancient wilderness, they set out on a transformative expedition that will test their limits and change their lives forever. Deep in the Amazon, they meet the Huaorani tribe, embracing their culture amidst lush landscapes. Challenges arise, from treacherous terrain to mysterious illnesses. Yet, their resilience and camaraderie prevail, forging enduring bonds beyond the journey's end.
Download or read book Off the Map written by John Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true-life adventure-travel story follows John Harrison and his wife Heather deep into an unexplored region of the Amazon rainforests in the Guiana Highlands that border Brazil. With just a canoe and a shotgun, the newlyweds followed the most remote tributary of the Amazon River without any means of contacting civilization. Harrison tells their story as, unaided and off the map, they encounter jaguars and poisonous frogs, are threatened by malaria, and almost lose their way entirely. While experiencing travel at its most raw, they struggle to keep their deteriorating sanity and relationship intact in one of the most hostile and unforgiving places in the world. Far more harrowing than reality shows like Survivor and Amazing Race, this is armchair adventure at its most honest and compelling.
Download or read book The Amazon Trail An Epic Journey Through the Amazon Jungle and the Discovery of a Lost City With Plates Including a Portrait written by Percy Albert REUSS and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lost Lady of the Amazon written by Anthony Smith and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the epic odyssey of Isabela Godin des Odonais, an eighteenth-century aristocrat, who braved the perils of the Amazon to undertake a three-thousand-mile journey marked by hardship, starvation, danger, and death.
Download or read book Journey Through Many Worlds written by Johan Dempers and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating story which started 15 years ago when the author responded to a newspaper advertisement from one Joe Brooks, seeking a fellow adventurer to take part in what seemed to be a crazy venture: a 15,000 kilometer trip across the continent of South America-by pane, train, on foot and by canoe. Together, the two men travelled through the ancient ruins of long lost civilizations, over the snow-capped Andes Mountains, and into the rainforests of the Amazon. Their six-month journey into the unknown took the two through some of the remotest and wilders regions on the face of our planet. Their capture by Indians deep in the jungle of Brazil-and their subsequent release after a police raid on the Indian village-made international headlines, but that was only a part of the author's incredible adventures. This autobiographical work will also take you on an action-packed trip to the war-torn regions of Angola, Iraq, and Afghanistan-but ultimately it is a story about extraordinary events happening to ordinary people. It is a Journey through Many Worlds: but, wait, is isn't over yet.... "We seldom hear or read about men who still fit the mound of 'adventurers.' I am proud to know one such man and to have shared time working with him. As a man, he has played a part in many great adventures and travels across the globe-from the desperate and bloody battlefields of Angola to the desolation and dangerous fields of Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite severe injuries, he has ever abandoned his love and passion for adventure and the Amazon trip is a perfect example of a man with drive and gumption-a man who is not put off by the unknown."-Eeben Barlow, ex-SADF Lieutenant-Colonel and founder of Executive Outcomes.
Download or read book The Amazon from Source to Sea written by West Hansen and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-year-old canoe racer-turned-explorer West Hansen is planning to kayak the Amazon River when he learns that everyone - cartographers, adventurers, even his own sponsor, National Geographic Society - has misplaced the source of the world's greatest river. One of exploration's great prizes is suddenly back up for grabs, and to claim it all Hansen has to shepherd a team of irascible Texans and international whitewater stars some 4,200 miles, from the crest of the Peruvian Andes to the Atlantic Ocean. The journey brings him face-to-face with a controversy as old as Livingstone's quest for the source of the Nile, in addition to the usual obstacles. With great humor and insight, Hansen details a wild ride full of personality conflicts, extortion, Machiavellian subterfuge, pirates, drug lords, uncharted whitewater, massive thunderstorms, injuries, illness, fatigue, tropical heat, blizzards, altitude sickness, jungle drunks, bales of marijuana, substandard scotch, bureaucratic labyrinths, loneliness, colossal tides and the unstoppable force of the largest and longest river on the planet. -- Jeff Moag, Freelance Writer and Editor, former editor of Canoe and Kayak Magazine
Download or read book The Amazon written by Jen Green and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the journey of a river from source to mouth. In these books, each river is divided into five sections and each section begins with a map showing the area that will be covered. Map references are highlighted within the text to show the reader where they are on their journey.
Download or read book Five Weeks in the Amazon written by Sean Michael Hayes and published by Hmmediahouse. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sean Hayes was a successful skateboarder who made it on the cover of Skateboard Canada by the age of 18, and had a six-figure salary by 25, but he was completely miserable. Here, he outlines his journey through the Amazon and his attempt to find answers to the problems in his life.
Download or read book A Journey in Brazil written by Louis Agassiz and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Agassiz sheds insight into Brazil's history: his travels took place in the 1860s, when the country was undergoing great change as an Empire and grappling with its this development. The author offers eye-opening accounts of a Brazil now lost to time; observations of the urban culture and life, and the natural habitat of the countryside and forests, offer the reader immense insight into the era. Most of the text is written as a narrative diary, wherein Agassiz observes and describes traversing colonial-era Rio de Janeiro, the city of Manaus, the Amazon river, various small towns and villages, and the vast rainforests. As a zoologist, Agassiz's interest in the diverse wildlife present in Brazil forms a recurring theme in this book. However, the text is careful not to dwell too long on matters obscure or scientific; while the author is clearly at work, he also covers matters of culture and day-to-day life. Anecdotes include lectures which Brazil's Emperor Pedro II attended; the leader arranges the room's chairs that he sits equally with other attendees - reasoning that science does not distinguish people by rank or position. As Agassiz and his company travel through Brazil, we are treated to many vignettes of life. The fiestas, street scenes and atmosphere of the locales are evocatively described. We hear of bustling markets and harbors, plazas in which coffee beans dry, the periodic hunting, and an enmeshed, diverse society blending European habits and native customs. The beginnings of modernity, such as plans for railroads, are also detailed. In a later portion of the book Agassiz expounds on differences between what he terms the 'human races' - opinions which have since come into disrepute. This new edition of A Journey in Brazil reproduces the twenty-five illustrations of the original 1868 text, as well as the author's appendices and notes.
Download or read book The Last Great Journey on Earth written by Brian Branston and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author vividly recalls the perils and struggles of his two-thousand-mile journey up the Amazon tributary Rio Negro.
Download or read book A Journey in Brazil written by Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Journey in Brazil" by Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book The Amazon Heist written by Kimberly M. Grimes and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey to the fascinating world of the Amazon rainforest as seen through the eyes of the native peoples, artisans, students and tourists. Anacondas, caimans, monkeys, shamans, yucca harvests, river cruises, legends and much more come to life in this amusing yet suspenseful book. Elizabeth Long, an Anthropology professor, and her group of students travel to the Amazon jungle for a study abroad trip. In this bold adventure, they encounter life as never before imagined, living with a tribe on the world’s mightiest river. The voyage takes a sudden turn when the discovery of diamonds in the area leads to a robbery. It is an event that will cause the students’ lives to converge with two elderly British tourists and two local men who work at the diamond mine, weaving them together in a race to recover the diamonds before time runs out. The book unearths the spirit of the Amazon peoples and recreates the beauty of the rainforest - the sights, smells, tastes, sounds, and dangers of this unique place. A riveting chronicle. Most entertaining is the way in which humorous tales, changing attitudes and the straddling of two very different worlds are revealed by following the visitors and natives’ days.
Download or read book Pizarro Orellana and the Exploration of the Amazon written by Brendan Bernhard and published by Chelsea House Publications. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the journey through the Amazon Basin made by Orellana and Pizarro in the early sixteenth century. Also discusses the Inca and the conquest of South America by the Spanish.
Download or read book Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon written by Jules Verne and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon is a unique addition to Jules Verne’s beloved adventure series, Voyages Extraordinaire, as it is among the few Verne novels that does not include elements of science fiction. Instead, Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon combines the adventure genre with a murder mystery. After being falsely accused of a crime, Joam Garral was forced to flee Brazil. Now, many years later, he is living on a thriving Peruvian plantation with his family. However, when his daughter is set to marry a Brazilian army surgeon named Manuel Valdez, the couple decide to have their wedding in Brazil, so that Manuel’s mother, who cannot travel, is able to attend the wedding. Nervous about returning to his home country, but absolutely dedicated to supporting his daughter, Joam decides to make the journey to Brazil, and aims to restore his reputation while he is there. With this is mind, the Garral family start their journey, riding down the Amazon River on a giant raft. This journey alone proves to be difficult, as the family must prevail over the dangers of the river. Finally, when they arrive in Brazil, they meet a shady man named Torres, who has an encrypted letter that would clear Joam’s name. However, as Torres tries to extort them, the Garral family must find a way to obtain and decode this letter before Joam is executed. Set in the 19th century, Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Jules Verne contains excellent detail that brings its vibrant setting to life. With this vivid scenery and close attention to detail, modern readers are given privileged information on the natural history of the Amazon River, along with a perspective on South American culture and customs. With a dramatic narrative, suspense, and plot twists, Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon is a thrilling and mysterious adventure that keeps readers engaged and captivated. This edition of Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Jules Verne features a new, eye-catching cover design and is printed in an easy-to-read font. With these accommodations, Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon is both accessible and entertaining for a contemporary audience.
