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Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding from the outside world, they are the unconquered, the last survivors of an ancient culture that predates the arrival of Columbus in the New World. ... read more
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- Matis
- Adelson
- Nicolas
- Mauro
- Raimundo
- Alfredo
- Ivan Arapa
- Wilson
- Danilo
- Mika
- Paulo Welker
- Scott
- Kanamari
- Maya
- Tabatinga
- Rondon
- Kwini
- Geraldo
- Amarildo
- Chico
- Wura
- Renato
- Sarah
- Antonio Carlos
- Fawcett
- Txema
- Pedro
- Sobral
- Marubo
- Chagnon
- Pereira
- Scotchie
- Jose
- Paulo Souza
- Ian
- Ivan Waca
- Burra
- Marcio
- Mackenzie
- Adelino
Setting & Locations edit
- Amazon River
- Soldado
- Orlando
- Brazil
- Korubo
- Itaqual
- Sydney
- New York
- Arara
- Brasilia
- Kukaha
- Peru
- Curuena
- Upper Amazon
- Colombia
- Kukahd
- Anaconda
- Leticia
- South America
- United States
- Amazonia
- Tabatingra
- Manaus
- Columbus
- Terra Indigena
- Parakana
- Bolivia
- Mato Grosso
- Texeiras
- Massape
- Puruya
First Sentence edit
THE CALL THAT LED ME from New York deep into the Amazon came one day in early June from Oliver Payne, a senior editor at National Geographic.
Table of Contents edit
Prologue: Deep In, Far Back
Map
PART I: INTO THE AMAZON
1. A Rumor of Savages
2. Scramble to the Amazon
3. Through the Chokepoint
4. At a Bend in the River
5. A Topography of Strife
6. White River, Black Night
7. A Government of One
8. Between Two Worlds
9. The Point of No Return
PART II: IN THE LAND OF THE ARROW PEOPLE
10. A Forest Dark
11. The Headwaters
12. Lessons in Biology
13. A Guerrilla Army
14. In the Footsteps of Rondon
15. The Meaning of Contact
16. Our Guns, Our Germs, and Our Steel
17. The Day of the Maloca
Photo Insert
PART III: THE IMPERATIVE TO SURVIVE
18. Reprovisioned
19. Jungle Shipyards
20. The Tipping Point
21. East with the River
22. Borderlands
23. Rendezvous
24. The Old Man and the River
25. The Gold Dredge
26. Civilization and Our Discontents
27. Meet the Head-Bashers
28. The Overflight
Epilogue
Postscript
Acknowledgments
Notes
Select Glossary and Pronunciation Guide
Bibliography
Authors & Contributors edit
- Scott Wallace (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Crown
Country: USA
Publication Date: October 18, 2011
ISBN: 978-0307462961
Page Count: 494
Publisher: Crown
Country: USA
Publication Date: October 18, 2011
ISBN: 978-0307462961
Page Count: 494
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- Dewey: 910
Subjects edit
- Books › Travel › Specialty Travel › Adventure
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