amazon river region

Wonder Woman uses her magical bracelets to defeat the traps that Cheetah has laid for her in the jungles of South America, and capture her enemy.

Text and illustrations look at the Amazon rain forest.

Married less than two years, the author and her husband decided they wanted a honeymoon adventure. They set out for South America, including the Amazon River. When their plane crashes on the way to their next destination, they are stranded in a town in the middle of nowhere. Boats are infrequent and they would have to wait months for the next one. They decide to take a stranger's suggestion and build a raft to take them down the Amazon to their next destination, which, he assures them, will be easy. Ready for a new adventure, they are excited as they set off. Soon their excitement turns to horror and despair as a storm pushes their raft into a dead-end channel of the piranha-infested River Madre de Dios (Mother of God). Without the means of a motor or paddles, they wait for death as they slowly starve to death for twenty-six days. Only a chance encounter with two natives saves their lives.

Explorer and conservationist Paul Rosolie recounts his adventures exploring the inaccessible area of the Mother of God River, or, the Madre de Dios, the region of Peru where the Amazon River begins flowing into the lowland Amazon rainforest.

"When Jack and his genius foster siblings, Ava and Matt, discover inventor Hank Witherspoon is missing, they travel deep into the Amazon jungle, overcoming strange creatures, a raging river, and some very clever foes to find their friend and protect his big idea"--Provided by publisher.

"Human beings have inhabited the banks of the Amazon River since 13,000 BC and yet they make up just a small percentage of the 'population' of this geographic wonderland. The Amazon River basin teems with life--animal and plant alike. It's a rainforest that is home to an estimated 390 billion individual trees, 2.5 million species of insects, and hundreds of amazing creatures and plants that can either cure diseases, or, like the poison dart frog, kill with a single touch. 'Where Is the Amazon?' reveals the amazing scale of a single rainforest that we are still trying to understand today and that, in many ways, supports our existence on this planet"--Provided by publisher.

Left stranded in the Amazon jungle when their plane crashes on their way back to England from Manaus, Brazil, four children struggle to survive for days until one of them finds a map that leads them to a ruined city and a secret hidden among the vines.

All eleven-year-old twins Oliver and Celia Navel want to do is watch television, but their explorer father takes them in search of El Dorado, the Lost City of Gold, and their long-lost mother.

During a hike with her brother through the Amazon rainforest, fifth-grader Lea discovers a badly injured baby sloth.

Asks the reader to choose the plot path in a story in which most of a medical team researching tropical diseases goes missing in the Amazon jungle, leaving a young doctor--the reader--alone.