Cover of Tree of Rivers

Tree of Rivers

by Hemming, John

2008 368 pages eng

By far the world's largest river, the Amazon flows through the greatest expanse of tropical rain forest on earth. Human beings settled in Amazonia ten thousand years ago and learned to live well on its bounty. Europeans first saw it around 1500 and started settling there in the seventeenth century. …

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