For thirty years David G. Campbell has explored the Amazon, an enchanting terrain of forest and river that is home to the greatest diversity of plants and animals to have ever existed, anywhere at any time, during the four-billion-year history of life on Earth. With great artistic flair, Campbell describes a journey up the Rio Moa, a remote tributary of the Amazon River, 2,800 miles from its mouth. In elegant prose that enchants and entrances, Campbell has written an elegy for the Amazon forest and its peoples-for what has become a land of ghosts.
For thirty years David G. Campbell has explored the Amazon, an enchanting terrain of forest and river that is home to the greatest diversity of plants and animals to have ever existed, anywhere at any time, during the four-billion-year history of life on Earth. With great artistic flair, Campbell describes a journey up the Rio Moa, a remote tributary of the Amazon River, 2,800 miles from its mouth. In elegant prose that enchants and entrances, Campbell has written an elegy for the Amazon forest and its peoples-for what has become a land of ghosts.
DAVID G. CAMPBELL is a teacher, ecologist, and explorer who has worked on all seven continents. The author of the highly acclaimed The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica, he is a recipient of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award, the PEN Martha Albrand Award, the Burroughs Medal, and the Lannan Award for Nonfiction. Dr. Campbell is a professor of biology and the Henry R. Luce Professor in Nations and the Global Environment at Grinnell College.
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Prologue: The Odyssey 1. Southern Cross 2. River of Light 3. An Expedition of Poets 4. River of Hunger 5. What the Bees Said 6. On the Line 7. The Naming of Parts 8. The Gift 9. River of Terns 10. A Land of Ghosts 11. Angelim Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Species Descriptions and Glossary of Portuguese Words Bibliography Index
Prologue: The Odyssey 1. Southern Cross 2. River of Light 3. An Expedition of Poets 4. River of Hunger 5. What the Bees Said 6. On the Line 7. The Naming of Parts 8. The Gift 9. River of Terns 10. A Land of Ghosts 11. Angelim Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Species Descriptions and Glossary of Portuguese Words Bibliography Index
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