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English
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Dr. Marina Singh, a research scientist with a Minnesota pharmaceutical company, is sent to Brazil to track down her former mentor, Dr. Annick Swenson, who seems to have all but disappeared in the Amazon while working on what is destined to be an extremely valuable new drug, the development of which has already cost the company a fortune. Nothing about Marina's assignment is easy: not only does no one know where Dr. Swenson is, but the last person...
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English
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After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century": what happened to British explorer Percy Fawcett. In 1925 Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization. For centuries Europeans believed the world's largest jungle concealed the glittering El Dorado. Thousands had died looking for it, leaving many convinced that the Amazon was...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 6
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Jack, his seven-year-old sister, Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forests, where they encounter giant ants, flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Into the Amazon tells the remarkable story of the journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Candido Rondon into the heart of the South American rainforest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon.
5) Amazonia
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English
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"Gripping...a first-rate nail biter."
—Tampa Tribune
James Rollins—the author of The Doomsday Key, The Last Oracle, The Judas Strain, Black Order, and other pulse-pounding, New York Times bestsellers—carries readers into the heart of darkness in his classic thriller, Amazonia. Lincoln Child, New York Times bestselling co-author (with Douglas Preston) of Cemetery Dance and other Agent Pendergast thrillers,
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English
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The true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing 1914 exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth, 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...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Cândido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked his way through jungles so inhospitable that even native peoples had avoided them--and led Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, on their celebrated "River of Doubt" journey in 1913-14. Upon leaving the Brazilian Army in 1930 with the rank of a two-star...
10) The Amazon
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Language
English
Description
Introduces the Amazon River and the rain forest that surrounds it, describing their physical characteristics and the plants and animals that live there, and discusses its people, their history, economic and social conditions, and other details --
11) The Amazon
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the Amazon River, the plants, animals, and native peoples supported by it, and the threats to its future.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Second in length only to the Nile, the Amazon River carries a greater volume of water than any other river in the world. This book features the fascinating facts about this far-reaching river and the animals, plant life, and indigenous cultures that live in the surrounding rain forest. Flowing from the Andes Mountains in South America down to the Atlantic Ocean, the Amazon supports farming, tourism, fishing, logging, mining, and hydroelectric power...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.
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Language
English
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Description
"A young workaholic avoiding home for the holidays discovers that you can't run away from who you are. Everly Lancaster always dreamed of leaving her hometown in rural Illinois. Now she helps run a burgeoning startup in Chicago, where her professional goals leave little time for friends ... or a vacation. When a massive snowstorm hits, Everly's mother urges her to come home for Christmas, but she hesitates to return to the life she's worked so hard...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Departures, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 316 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The author describes how her honeymoon was cut short when her plane crashed in the jungles of Peru, forcing her and her husband to try to survive aboard a makeshift raft as they made their way down the Amazon River to civilization.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations, color foldout map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Without risking life or limb, readers can explore the wonders and beauty of the Amazon in this Where Is ...? title. Human beings have inhabited the banks of the Amazon River since 13,000 BC and yet they make up just a small percentage of the 'population' of this geographic wonderland. The Amazon River basin teems with life--animal and plant alike. It's a rainforest that is home to an estimated 390 billion individual trees, 2.5 million species of...
18) Amazon River
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.), 1 map ; 25 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
An overview of South America's Amazon River, which is approximately 4000 miles long.
19) Amazon adventure
Author
Series
Publisher
G. Stevens
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of the Amazon River region, the plants, animals, and people that inhabit it, and its uncertain future in the face of rapidly encroaching modern civilization.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the largest rainforest in the world, a vast wonder just waiting for you to explore. Follow along as pink dolphins dart through the flooded river, vampire bats swoop down from the trees, and giant green anacondas slowly slither across the forest floor. This humongous habitat is home to millions of plants, animals, and people. But large as it may be, the Amazon Rainforest is in danger--and shrinking fast. Learn more about this amazing place...
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