amazon river valley

Describes the Amazon River, the largest river in the world that travels throught South America, and presents its people, plants, animals, and history.

Describes the way of life of the Indians who live in the tropical forests of the Amazon Basin.

Eight-year-old Jack, his seven-year-old sister, Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forests, where they encounter giant ants, flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars.

Recounts Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 expedition to the Amazon, where he became the first person to descend the unmapped tributary of the Amazon.

When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.

When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.

Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold, accompanying his eccentric grandmother, a writer, on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.

Examines the effects of technology and urban growth on the animals, plants, and people who live at the mouth of the Amazon River.

Alicia, a young tribeswoman living in a village in the Amazonian jungle of Peru, tells about the two American women anthropologists who arrive to study her people's way of life.

While spending the summer in the Amazon rain forest of Brazil doing botanical research, thirteen-year-old Grady discovers a secret language used by the trees to communicate with each other and falls afoul of the dictatorial Dr. Carter, whose motives seem questionable.