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ebooks / online materials	508.811 JAC	Available

Summary

• This book profiles the Amazon, the largest and most bio-diverse tropical rain forest in the world, covering the rain forest and the river; its flora, fauna, and life cycles; and the people who live there in the nine South American countries it extends across.

Table of Contents

• The Amazon
• The Amazon Basin
• The Amazon River
• Land of forests
• Around the rain forest
• Wetlands
• Plants and fungi
• Birds of the Amazon
• Amazon monkeys
• On the forest floor
• Creepy-crawlies
• In and around the river
• Hunting for food
• Of both worlds
• Forest reptiles
• Amazon fish
• Ancient civilizations
• Discovery and conquest
• Myths
• Traditional life
• Modern Amazonia
• Getting around
• Deforestation
• Mining and damming
• Endangered species
• Modern industry
• Conservation
• Ecotourism
• Farming
• Amazon wonders
• Amazon facts
• Amazon by country.

Notes

• At head of title: Eyewitness.
• Includes index.
• Description based on print version record.

Subjects

• Natural history -- Amazon River Region
• Rain forests -- Amazon River Region
• Amazon River Region

Authors

• Jackson, Tom, 1972-
• Gale Group

Series Titles

• DK eyewitness books
• Gale virtual reference library
• Dorling Kindersley eyewitness books.

Publisher

• New York : DK Pubishing

Call Number

• 508.811 JAC

ISBN

• 9781465443137

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