In Amazonia: A Natural History

by Hugh Raffles

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The Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows us in this captivating and innovative book, the world's last great wilderness has been transformed again and again by human activity. In Amazonia brings to life an Amazon whose allure and reality lie as much, or more, in what people have made of it as in what nature has wrought. It casts new light on centuries of encounter while describing the dramatic remaking of a sweeping landscape...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691048851

ISBN13:9780691048857

Release Date:November 2002

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:320 Pages

Weight:1.03 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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