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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
At the mouth of the Amazon River, a murder trial is taking place. The victim – Sister Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old Catholic nun from Dayton, Ohio – was shot six times at point blank range. The events that led to her death, and the trials that follow, reveal the larger battle being fought for the future of the rain forest. With unprecedented access to both sides of the conflict, this gripping documentary follows the real-life drama at the trials...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The Achuar people live in a part of the Amazon rain forest as pristine today as it was a thousand years ago. Their dreams are keeping it that way. The Achuar had no contact with the outside world until the early 1970's. We learn how their dreams have protected their forest and their society, and could even help guide all of us to a sustainable future on our planet.
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At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.
The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through...
The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through...
12) Rain forest
Author
Pub. Date
1988
Description
Creatures live peacefully until a cry of alarm sounds through the rain forest.
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"It's magical. In a world saturated with video, Photicular technology weaves a very special spell, capturing intimate, moving moments of life on earth and tapping into the reader's imagination. Dense and humid and filled with undiscovered secrets, rain forests are home to more than half of the world's plants and animals. It is a world teeming with life, and Jungle, through its vivid combination of color and motion, parts the veil on this mysterious...
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Magic bone volume 7
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Sparky's magic bone takes him to the Amazon rainforest in Brazil where he encounters a variety of creatures, becomes leader of a pack of web-footed dogs, and helps protect their home from two-legs in metal machines that have flattened so many trees, Sparky cannot find where he buried his bone. Includes facts about the rainforest and its residents.
19) Rain forests
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Description
An introduction to what a rain forest is and the kinds of plants and creatures that live in them.
20) Monkey time
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Description
"Monkey tries to catch the brightly colored--and tasty-looking--minutes on the minute tree in his forest. Introduces basic concepts about time and how time passes and is measured"--
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