A Land of Ghosts

A Land of Ghosts
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 9780547523439
ISBN-13 : 0547523432
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Land of Ghosts by : David G. Campbell

Download or read book A Land of Ghosts written by David G. Campbell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biologist and award-winning author journeys deep inside the Amazon rainforest in this eloquent and insightful look at one of earth’s last wild places. For thirty years, biologist David G. Campbell has been exploring the lush wilderness, of the western Amazon, which contains more species than ever existed anywhere on our planet. In A Land of Ghosts, Campbell takes readers on his latest venture. In Cruzeiro do Sul, 2,800 miles from the mouth of the Amazon, Campbell collects three old friends: Arito, a caiman hunter turned paleontologist; Tarzan, a street urchin brought up in a bordello; and Pimentel, a master canoe pilot. Heading further into the rainforest, they survey every living woody plant they can find. The land is so rich that an area of less than fifty acres contains three times as many tree species as all of North America. Campbell knows the trees individually, and he knows the wildlife and the people as well: the recently arrived colonists with their failing farms; the Caboclos, masters of hunting, fishing, and survival; and the refugee Native Americans. These people live in a land whose original inhabitants were wiped out by centuries of disease, slavery, and genocide, taking their traditions and languages with them: a land of ghosts.


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