The biologist and award-winning author journeys deep inside the Amazon
rainforest in this eloquent and insightful look at one of earth’s
last wild places. For thirty years, biologist David G. Campbell has
been exploring the lush wilderness, of the western Amazon, which
contains more species than ever existed anywhere on our planet. In A
Land of Ghosts, Campbell takes readers on his latest venture. In
Cruzeiro do Sul, 2,800 miles from the mouth of the Amazon, Campbell
collects three old friends: Arito, a caiman hunter turned
paleontologist; Tarzan, a street urchin brought up in a bordello; and
Pimentel, a master canoe pilot. Heading further into the rainforest,
they survey every living woody plant they can find. The land is so
rich that an area of less than fifty acres contains three times as
many tree species as all of North America. Campbell knows the trees
individually, and he knows the wildlife and the people as well: the
recently arrived colonists with their failing farms; the Caboclos,
masters of hunting, fishing, and survival; and the refugee Native
Americans. These people live in a land whose original inhabitants were
wiped out by centuries of disease, slavery, and genocide, taking their
traditions and languages with them: a land of ghosts.
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ISBN
9780547523439
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (ORM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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