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Bradt Guide The Amazon
Ref: BRA010
Whether you are taking a leisurely riverboat trip or organising your own expedition, wish to learn about the area’s flora and fauna or the people living along the river’s route, this book is invaluable.
Book Reviews
'This Bradt guide to the Amazon describes every aspect of travel in this unique South American region… this is an indispensable guide.'
--Reviewers Bookwatch
'[an] all-encompassing guide'
--The Independent
'With this book, you'll be able to capture the adventure of Amazonian exploration for yourself.'
--Wanderlust
About this Destination
The world’s greatest river flows from its source high in the Peruvian Andes through mountains, cloudforest and lush rainforests to its final destination on Brazil’s eastern shores. Long associated with exploration and adventure, the Amazon is also rightly treasured for its biodiversity
Author's Note, by Roger Harris and Peter Hutchison
To travel the Amazon from source to delta is the dream of many: one of the world’s great journeys. Others may prefer to strike out into the rainforest, or to explore countries on the outer edges of the Amazon Basin. Those in search of rainforests and wildlife should also consider visiting the pristine jungles of Guyana, French Guiana and Suriname, which, although they lie just beyond the watershed, offer some of the region’s least disturbed and most inaccessible rainforest.
Whatever style of trip you plan – whether a one-week riverboat trip or an extensive multi-country tour of the region – your experience will be unique. If you’re lucky you may see some of Amazonia’s elusive wildlife; more realistically you will come away with just some idea of the sheer scale of the Amazon and the region through which it flows. Whatever your reasons for choosing to visit there is certain to be an occasion when you stand in the rainforest or on your riverboat, mouth agape in disbelief. In Brazil they say ‘Opa’ – loosely translated as ‘Wow!’
Roger Harris is a natural history expert and expedition leader. Peter Hutchison is a journalist and tour leader.
£14.95
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