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The river sea, the Amazon in history, myth, and legend, by Marshall De Bruhl

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The river sea, the Amazon in history, myth, and legend, by Marshall De Bruhl
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eng
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non fiction
Main title
The river sea
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612348293
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by Marshall De Bruhl
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the Amazon in history, myth, and legend
Table Of Contents
The European discovery of the Amazon -- The river sea : from the Andes to the Atlantic -- The Incas : the rise and fall of the empire of the sun -- The search for El Dorado : gold, spices, and blood -- Conquistadors for Christ : the holy fathers and the indigenous peoples -- The great powers in the Amazon basin : the struggle for control -- Nature's grand laboratory : European science discovers the Amazon -- The Peruvian Evangeline : the journey of Maria Isabel de Jesus Grameson y Godin -- I must find out about the unity of nature : the explorations of Alexander von Humboldt --Three eminent Victorians in the "garden of the world" : Wallace, Bates, and Spruce explore the Amazon -- The great rubber boom : an Amazonian gilded age -- - Exploitation, despoliation, or conservation : the river sea in the new millennium
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