amazon river region

In 1541, Conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and his Lieutenant Francisco Orellana, set off from Quito in seach of South America's rumored Land of Cinnamon and the fabled El Dorado "the golden man" who, rumor said, was drenched in gold each day and washed off in the river every night. Their huge expedition began to disintegrate long before they reached the jungle that was to guide them to the Amazon River. Pizarro and Orellana soon made the fateful decision to separate. While Pizarro eventually returned home barefoot and in rags, Orellana and fifty-seven men continued down the Amazon River into unexplored and unknown areas. Orellana became the first European to navigage and explore the entire length of the world's largest river.

When Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence surrounding the secret laboratory she's grown up in, she sneaks outside the compound meeting Eio, a boy from a nearby village, and they embark on a race to discover the truth of Pia's origin.

An immortal girl is raised in the depths of the Amazon only to discover that there is more to life than forever.

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.

Provides information about the great variety of life in the Amazon rain forests, and looks at some of the unique partnerships formed by different species in an attempt to improve their chances of survival.

In 1995, wildlife photographer Stephen Kirkpatrick joined a five-man expedition headed into the jungles of the Peruvian Amazon. Within hours of their departure, a series of bad decisions left the group hopelessly lost in the depths of the jungle. What began as a photo expedition became a struggle for survival.

Presents twelve retold indigenous tales from Brazil.

Text, cartoons, and photographs describe the vegetation, animals, people, and history of the Amazon River region in Latin America.

Explains how to use double line and double bar graphs to chart and understand information about the ecosystems of the Amazon rain forest and the Sahara desert.