Release Date: 31 Aug 2003 Format: Hardback Publisher: DAVID BATEMAN LTD ISBN: 9781869534806 ISBN-10: 1869534808
On the immense Amazon plain, covered by equatorial forests and squeezed between the Central and Guyanas Plateaux, flows the Amazon River and its tributaries, the largest expanse of fresh water on earth. The region surrounding this vast river system has been called terra incognita and inferno verde (green hell) by writers, poets and explorers. It continues to inspire adventurers today, and this book explores some of the reasons for this fascination.