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First printing. A book which 'traces a rich and marvelous legacy of stories and images of the Amazon that reflects the influence of widely different groups of people - conquistadores, corporate executives, susbsistence farmers - over the centuries. . . [it] makes clear that we cannot defend the Amazon's dazzling array of plants and animals without comprehending its equally astonishing human and cultural diversity. ' The author's fifteen years of fieldwork and the oral histories she collected are interwoven with voices of long-ago writers and explorers - including Claude Levi-Strauss, Theodore Roosevelt, and Henry Walter Bates. Frontispiece, double page map, 39 photographs, chronology, glossary, extensive notes, bibliography, index. 332 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. .ISBN # 0-520-226410 

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