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Wild Places of the World
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The World's Wild Places published by Time Life Books 1973 The Amazon is in very good condition.
184 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1973
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January 22, 2012
This Book gives a comrehensive picture of the Amazon, as a river ,as a forest and as a civilization . The gradual demise of Indian race against the advent of the overwhelming modernism is however painful.Human apathy or cruelty know no bounds at such moments.All humanism just evaporates at the altar of self interest.There appears a great divide between words and deeds . If the author consciously wanted realization of this feeling,and is not a bye product, he has off course succeded.
February 27, 2023
Tom manages to make the pages of the book come alive with the Amazon forest. He tells the interesting stories and tells them well.
April 1, 2011
Another book of the series rates 5 stars because I like the text as much as I like the pictures. I learned a lot about why the forests of the Amazon are different from forests in temperate climates, and this information explains why we North Americans or Europeans can't make assumptions about soil fertility based on what we may know about forestry close to home. This book gave more information about its indigenous people than other books in this series, and I appreciate that.
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