Overview :From the ancient Polynesians who struck out across the vast Pacific in dug-out canoes with only the stars to guide them, to the Victorian mi... Read More
Overview :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 u... Read More
Overview :"Distinguished by an extraordinary empathy, a feeling of one's way into the minds of the sixteenth-century Spaniards and Indians . . . Provo... Read More
Overview :In 1945, three young brothers joined and eventually led Brazil's first government-sponsored expedition into its Amazonian rainforests. After... Read More
Overview :An expansive biography of William (or Guillermo, as he is known in South America) Miller, a soldier well-recognized and loved not just in mo... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This ... Read More
Overview :In Naturalists in Paradise, Amazon expert John Hemming weaves the riveting stories of these three men's experiences in the Amazon and assess... Read More
Overview :The chemical composition of natural water is derived from many different sources of solutes, including gases and aerosols from the atmospher... Read More