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One River
Author | : Wade Davis |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1439126836 |
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The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America—Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis—an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history. In 1941, Professor Richard Evan Schultes took a leave from Harvard and disappeared into the Amazon, where he spent the next twelve years mapping uncharted rivers and living among dozens of Indian tribes. In the 1970s, he sent two prize students, Tim Plowman and Wade Davis, to follow in his footsteps and unveil the botanical secrets of coca, the notorious source of cocaine, a sacred plant known to the Inca as the Divine Leaf of Immortality. A stunning account of adventure and discovery, betrayal and destruction, One River is a story of two generations of explorers drawn together by the transcendent knowledge of Indian peoples, the visionary realms of the shaman, and the extraordinary plants that sustain all life in a forest that once stood immense and inviolable.
What Is a River?
Author | : Monika Vaicenavičiene |
Publisher | : Enchanted Lion Books |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2020-02-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781592702794 |
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A river is a thread, embroidering our world. This non-fiction picture book brings attention to the rivers that stitch and thread our world together.
The River
Author | : Peter Heller |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525521879 |
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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A fiery tour de force... I could not put this book down. It truly was terrifying and unutterably beautiful." -Alison Borden, The Denver Post From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip--a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of leisurely paddling and picking blueberries, and nights of stargazing and reading paperback Westerns. But a wildfire making its way across the forest adds unexpected urgency to the journey. When they hear a man and woman arguing on the fog-shrouded riverbank and decide to warn them about the fire, their search for the pair turns up nothing and no one. But: The next day a man appears on the river, paddling alone. Is this the man they heard? And, if he is, where is the woman? From this charged beginning, master storyteller Peter Heller unspools a headlong, heart-pounding story of desperate wilderness survival.
The River Book
Author | : James Grant MacBroom |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
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River of No Return
Author | : John Carrey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Boats and boating |
ISBN | : 9780960356621 |
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Grand Canyon River Guide
Author | : Buzz Belknap |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Grand Canyon (Ariz.) |
ISBN | : |
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Freedom River
Author | : Doreen Rappaport |
Publisher | : StarWalk Kids Media |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2014-06-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1630831301 |
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Describes an incident in the life of John Parker, an ex-slave who became a successful businessman in Ripley, Ohio, and who repeatedly risked his life to help other slaves escape to freedom.
Peace Like a River
Author | : Leif Enger |
Publisher | : Atlantic Monthly Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780871137951 |
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Davy kills two men and leaves home. His father packs up the family in a search for Davy.
Once a River
Author | : Amadeo M. Rea |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
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Like many rivers of the arid Southwest, the Gila is for much of its length a dry bed except after seasonal rains. Yet a mere century ago it hosted a thriving biological community, and two centuries ago American Indians fished from its banks. It is no mystery how the desert swallowed up the Gila. Beaver trapping, overgrazing, and woodcutting first ruined natural watersheds, then damming confined the last drops of its surface flow. Historical sources and archaeological data inform us of the Gila's past, but its bird life further testifies to the changes. Amadeo Rea traces the decline of bird life on the Middle Gila in a book that addresses the broader issue of habitat deterioration. Bird lovers will find it a storehouse of data on avian migration patterns and on ornithological classification based on skeletal structure. Anthropologists can draw on its Piman ethnoclassification of birds, which links the Gila River tribe with various other Uto-Aztecan peoples of Mexico's west coast. But for all concerned with protecting our environment, Once a River offers evidence of change that might be apprehended elsewhere. It is a case history of a loss that perhaps need never have occurred.