New
book looks at the mystique of the Amazon
Although
the Amazon has long been considered a place of unparalleled wildness,
the river's landscape has actually been dramatically transformed by hundreds
of years of human intervention, writes UCSC anthropologist Hugh Raffles.
His new book In Amazonia: A Natural History, delves into an area
that has long captured world attention. More
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