The river sea
Subtitle: the Amazon in history, myth, and legend
By: by Marshall De Bruhl
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781582434902
Table of contents: title: The European discovery of the Amazon; title: The river sea : from the Andes to the Atlantic; title: The Incas : the rise and fall of the empire of the sun; title: The search for El Dorado : gold, spices, and blood; title: Conquistadors for Christ : the holy fathers and the indigenous peoples; title: The great powers in the Amazon basin : the struggle for control; title: Nature's grand laboratory : European science discovers the Amazon; title: Three eminent Victorians in the "garden of the world" : Wallace, Bates, and Spruce explore the Amazon; title: The great rubber boom : an Amazonian gilded age; title: The Peruvian Evangeline : the journey of María Isabel de Jesus Gramesón y Godin; title: Exploitation, despoliation, or conservation; title: The river sea in the new millennium.