amazon river region

"Part science, part carnival--this winding adventure down the Amazon River ... explores how tiny fish, called piabas, can help preserve not only the rainforest and it's often misunderstood inhabitants, but the fate of our entire environment"--Provided by publisher.

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.

"Part science, part carnival--this winding adventure down the Amazon River ... explores how tiny fish, called piabas, can help preserve not only the rainforest and it's often misunderstood inhabitants, but the fate of our entire environment."--.

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

Author recounts his travels and studies with some of the most powerful Amazonian shamans in his search for new medicinal plants.

Provides an account of the death-defying adventures of Colin Angus, Ben Kozel, and Scott Borthwick, a trio of young men who barely survived their attempt to become the first team to raft the 4,007 mile length of the Amazon River.

Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding from the outside world, they are the unconquered, the last survivors of an ancient culture that predates the arrival of Columbus. Journalist Scott Wallace chronicles an expedition into the Amazon's uncharted depths, discovering the rainforest's secrets while moving ever closer to a possible encounter with one such tribe of seldom-glimpsed warriors known to repulse all intruders with showers of deadly arrows.

Wildlife photographer Stephen Kirkpatrick chronicles the experiences he had while on an expedition to document the Amazon rain forest, where he and his team became lost in the jungle and had to battle aggressive wildlife, venomous reptiles, brutal heat, torrential rains, and an unforgiving landscape.

Follows Jacques Cousteau on an expedition along the Amazon River as he observes the native people and wildlife of the region.