In the Heart of the Amazon Forest
In the Heart of the Amazon Forest

Author: Henry Walter Bates

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2007-02-01

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13: 0141963220

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One of the most impressive of all Victorian scientists but also a marvellous writer, Bates' (1825-1892) account of his years in the upper reaches of the Amazon is almost too good to be true - a great monument to human inquisitiveness as he battles great hoards of malevolent reptiles and insects in his quest for ever more obscure specimens on ever more narrow and creeper-choked tributaries. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries – but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

In the Heart of the Amazon Forest
In the Heart of the Amazon Forest

Author: Henry Walter Bates

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2007-02-01

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13: 0141963220

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One of the most impressive of all Victorian scientists but also a marvellous writer, Bates' (1825-1892) account of his years in the upper reaches of the Amazon is almost too good to be true - a great monument to human inquisitiveness as he battles great hoards of malevolent reptiles and insects in his quest for ever more obscure specimens on ever more narrow and creeper-choked tributaries. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries – but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

Lost in the Amazon
Lost in the Amazon

Author: Tod Olson

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2018-01-30

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 054592829X

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In this true story written for young readers, a teen is the only survivor of a plane crash and must stay alive in the South American jungle until rescue. Peru, Christmas Eve, 1970. It was supposed to be a routine flight, carrying eighty-six passengers across the Andes Mountains and home for the holiday. But high above the Amazon rainforest, a roiling storm engulfs the plane. Lightning strikes. A deafening whoosh sweeps through the cabin. And suddenly, seventeen-year-old Juliane Koepcke is alone. The plane has vanished. She is strapped to her seat and plunging 3,500 feet to the forest floor. On Christmas Day, she wakes. She is injured, covered in mud, but strangely—miraculously—alive. And now, in a remote corner of the largest rainforest on Earth, the real battle for survival begins.

In the Heart of the Amazon
In the Heart of the Amazon

Author: Nick Gordon

Publisher: Metro Publishing, Limited

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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By turns fascinating, funny, and horrifying, this is Nick Gordon’s account of more thannbsp;10 years spent in the Amazonian forests as a wildlife filmmaker, snorting ground-up seeds with the local shaman, building an artificial tarantula habitat to film the furry monsters mating,nbsp;and killing and eating a two-foot snake.

In the Heart of the Amazon
In the Heart of the Amazon

Author: Nick Gordon

Publisher: Metro Publishing, Limited

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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By turns fascinating, funny, and horrifying, this is Nick Gordon’s account of more thannbsp;10 years spent in the Amazonian forests as a wildlife filmmaker, snorting ground-up seeds with the local shaman, building an artificial tarantula habitat to film the furry monsters mating,nbsp;and killing and eating a two-foot snake.

Heart of the Amazon
Heart of the Amazon

Author: Margaret Daley

Publisher: Harlequin Treasury-Love Inspired 90s

Published: 2006-12-26

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780373874132

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A prim and proper woman travels to the Amazon to search for her lost brother and gives her embittered guide a second chance to enjoy love and God. Original.

Forests of the Heart
Forests of the Heart

Author: Charles de Lint

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2000-06-03

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9780312865191

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A new tale of urban magic, in which a diverse cast of characters learns that all the oldest myths are true. Teems with music, danger and a touch of romance.

Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, 1851–1852
Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, 1851–1852

Author: William Lewis Herndon

Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0802198627

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An epic and intimate firsthand account of a true American hero’s daring journey into the heart of the Amazon forest in the nineteenth century. Captain William Lewis Herndon was memorialized in Gary Kinder’s bestselling book Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea, which recounts Herndon’s final acts of heroism as his ship foundered in a hurricane off the Carolina coast in 1857. Seven years before those tragic events, the secretary of the Navy had appointed Herndon to lead the first American expedition into the Amazon Valley, an epic adventure that Herndon immortalized into words. Herndon departed Lima, Peru, on May 20, 1851, and arrived at Para, Brazil, nearly a year later, traveling 4,000 miles by foot, mule, canoe, and boat. He cataloged the scientific and commercial observations requested by Congress, but he filed his report as a narrative, creating an intimate portrait of an exotic land before the outside world rushed in. Herndon’s report so far surpassed his superiors’ expectations that instead of printing the obligatory few hundred copies for Congress, the secretary of the Navy ordered 10,000 copies in the first print run; three months later, he ordered 20,000 more. Herndon described his adventures with such insight, compassion, and literary grace that he came to symbolize the new spirit of exploration and discovery sweeping mid-nineteenth-century America. Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon stands as one of the greatest chronicles of travel and exploration ever written.

Tropical Forests
Tropical Forests

Author: Peter D. Moore

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1438118740

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Explores the biodiversity of forests, from microbes to mammals, as well as the adaptations of organisms to their environment and to the other species surrounding them. This book examines the interactions between organisms and their physical surroundings and the processes that link the two into an integrated ecosystem.

Dagger of Black Eyes in My Heart
Dagger of Black Eyes in My Heart

Author: Hira Lal

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2024-04-30

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13:

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Perhaps there is no person who doesn't love a man or a woman in life. Nobody wants to lose their love, but they rather want to live their life with love. If you hope for such a loving life, then every step must be placed on the path of love by rationality, otherwise the result can be truly terrible. Dagger of Black Eyes in My Heart contains love-loaded poetry. Every poem deliberately tugs at the heartstrings (which is where the feelings of every human heart are hidden), touching the depths of the heart and presenting its mood. In short, this book brings out the dormant feelings of love. If you want to explore the depth of true love, then this book may be a perfect place to look.