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Animal Kingdoms: Wildlife Sanctuaries of the World. 1995.
 
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Van Dyk, Jere. “The Amazon: South America’s River Road.” Pages 2-39, February 1995.
 
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White, Mel. “Expedition: Amazon.” Pages 90-107, November-December 1993.
 
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Rinard, Judith E. “Adventure in the Amazon Rain Forest.” Pages 19-21, June 1993.
 
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“Amazonia—A World Resource at Risk.” Map Supplement, August 1992.
 
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Goodman, Susan. “Gaining Respect for the Rain Forest.” Pages 120-122, January-February 1992.
 
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The Emerald Realm: Earth’s Precious Rain Forests. 1990.
 
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Living on the Earth. 1988.
 
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Ellis, William S. “Rondônia: Brazil’s Imperiled Rain Forest.” Page 772-799, December 1988.
 
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McIntyre, Loren. “Last Days of Eden: Rondônia’s Urueu-Wau-Wau Indians.” Pages 800-817, December 1988.
 
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Chmielinski, Piotr. “Kayaking the Amazon.” Pages 461-473, April 1987.
 
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Vesilind, Priit J. “Brazil: Moment of Promise and Pain.” Pages 348-385, March 1987.
 
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Great Rivers of the World. 1984.
 
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Peoples and Places of the Past. 1983.
 
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White, Peter T. “Nature’s Dwindling Treasures.” Pages 2-47, January 1983.
 
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Devillers, Carole E. “What Future for the Wayana Indians?” Pages 66-83, Jan. 1983.
 
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Lost Empires, Living Tribes. 1982.
 
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McIntyre, Loren. “Jari: A Billion-dollar Gamble.” Pages 686-711, May 1980.
 
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von Puttkamer, W. Jesco. “Man in the Amazon: Stone Age Present Meets Stone Age Past.” Pages 60-83, January 1979.
 
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“Amazon Rain Forest: A Place of Mystery.” Pages 10-13, April 1978.
 
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“Three Worlds in One.” Pages 16-18, April 1978.
 
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McIntyre, Loren. “Treasure Chest or Pandora’s Box? Brazil’s Wild Frontier.” Pages 684-719, November 1977.
 
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McIntyre, Loren. “The Amazon.” Pages 445-455, October 1972.
 
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McIntyre, Loren. “Amazon— The River Sea.” Pages 456-495, October 1972.
 
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Schreider, Frank and Helen.Exploring the Amazon. 1970.
 
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Schultz, Harald. “Indians of the Amazon Darkness.” Pages 737-758, May 1964.
 
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Zahl, Paul A.“Giant Insects of the Amazon.” Pages 632-669, May 1959.
 
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Selected Sources
  • Amazon Wildlife (Insight Guides Series). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.

  • Amazonia. Oxford: Published in collaboration with the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources by Pergamon Press, 1985.

  • Bloom, Pamela. Fielding’s Amazon. Redondo Beach, CA:Fielding Worldwide, Incorporated, 1995.

  • Bodard, Lucien. Green Hell: Massacre of the Brazilian Indians. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1972.

  • Brown, Michael F. War of Shadows: The Struggle for Utopia in the Peruvian Amazon. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991.

  • Chernela, Janet. The Wanano Indians of the Brazilian Amazon: A Sense of Space. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1996.

  • Cleary, David. Anatomy of the Amazon Gold Rush. Iowa City, IA:University of Iowa Press, 1990.

  • Collins, Mark. The Last Rain Forests: A World Conservation Atlas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

  • Cousteau, Jacques-Yves and Mose Richards. Jacques Cousteau’s Amazon Journey. New York: Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, 1984.

  • Cunningham, Susan M. Out of the Amazon: Photographs of the Brazilian Rainforest. London : H.M.S.O., 1992.

  • Daly, Douglas. “The Perils of Collecting.” Pages 78-86,Audubon, January 1995.

  • De Almeida, Anna, and Joao S. Campari. Sustainable Settlement in the Brazilian Amazon. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

  • Descola, Philippe. The Spears of Ttwilight : Life and Death with the Last Free Tribe of the Amazon. New York : New Press, 1996.

  • Dobkin de Rios, Marlene. “Drug Tourism in the Amazon: Why Westerners are Desperate to Find the Vanishing Primitive.” Page 6,Omni, January 1994.

  • Dwyer, Augusta. Into the Amazon: The Struggle for the Rain Forest. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1991.

  • Fearnside, Philip M. Human Carrying Capacity of the Brazilian Rainforest. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.

  • Fodor’s South America: The Complete Guide to the Best of the Big Cities, Small Towns, Beaches, Andes & the Amazon. New York: Fodor’s Travel Publications, Incorporated, 1995.

  • Foresta, Ronald A. Amazon Conservation in the Age of Development: The Limits of Providence. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1991.

  • Frazier, Charles, and Donald Secreast. Adventuring in the Andes: The Sierra Club Travel Guide to Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, the Amazon Basin, & Galapagos Islands. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1985.

  • Gennino, Angela. Amazonia: Voices from the Rainforest. San Francisco, CA: Rainforest Action Network, 1990.

  • Good, Kenneth, and Brian R. Ferguson. “The Yanomami Keep on Trekking.” Page 56-65, Natural History, April 1995.

  • Goulding, Michael. Amazon: the Flooded Forest. New York:Sterling, 1990.

  • Hager, Mary. “Deep in the Flooded Forest.” Pages 52-63,Wildlife Conservation, January 1993.

  • Holloway, Marguerite. “Sustaining the Amazon.” Pages 90-99,Scientific American, July 1993.

  • Jordan, C. F. Amazonian Rain Forests. New York: Springer-Verlag New York, Incorporated, 1991.

  • Kane, Joe. Savages. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1995.

  • Kane, Joe. “Moi goes to Washington.” Pages 74-81, New Yorker, May 2, 1994.

  • Kane, Joe. Running the Amazon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1989.

  • Kimerling, Judy. Amazon Crude. New York: Natural Resources Defense Council, Incorporated, 1991.

  • Le Breton, Binka. Voices from the Amazon. West Hartford, CT:Kkumarian Press, Inc., 1993.

  • MacMillan, Gordon. At the End of the Rainbow?: Gold, Land, & People in the Brazilian Amazon. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

  • McCuen, Gary E. Ecocide & Genocide in the Vanishing Forest: The Rainforest & Native People. Hudson, WI: G E M McCuen Publications, Incorporated, 1993.

  • McIntyre, Loren. Amazonia. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Books, 1991.

  • Medina, Jose T., editor. The Discovery of the Amazon. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1988.

  • Meggers, Betty Jane. Amazonia: Man and Culture in a Counterfeit Paradise. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.

  • Milton, Katharine. “No Pain, No Game.” Page 44-51, Natural History, September 1994.

  • Moran, Emilio F. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Bloomington, IN: Center on Global Change and World Peace, 1992.

  • Moses, Sam. “Down Brazil’s River of Doubt.” Page 12-17, International Wildlife, September 1993.

  • Nixon, Will. “Beyond the Amazon.” Pages 38-40, Utne Reader, May 1993

  • Nugent, Stephen. Big Mouth: The Amazon Speaks. San Francisco, CA: BrownTrout Publishers, 1994.

  • Opendall, Francois. Challenging the Amazon: The Ultimate Adventure. New York: Sure Seller, 1993.

  • Ozorio de Almeida, Anna L. The Colonization of the Amazon. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992.

  • Penny, Norman D. and Jorge R. Arias. Insects of an Amazon Forest. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.

  • Plotkin, Mark. Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazonian Rain Forest. New York: Viking Penguin, 1993.

  • Reid, Howard. “Forest Rovers of the Amazon.” Pages 25-28, UNESCO Courier, November 1994.

  • Revkin, Andrew. The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes & the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest. New York: NAL Dutton, 1994.

  • Reynolds, Jan. Amazon Basin : Vanishing Cultures. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993.

  • Ricciardi, Mirella. Vanishing Amazon. New York: Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, 1991.

  • Rylands, Anthony B. The Status of Conservation Areas in the Brazilian Amazon. Washington, DC: World Wildlife Fund, 1991.

  • Schmink, Marianne. Contested Frontiers in Amazonia. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.

  • Schneider, David. “Rain Forest Crunch.” Page 19, Scientific American, March 1996.

  • Scully, Malcolm G. “Exploring the Vibrancy of the Rain Forest, 112 Feet Above Ground.” Page A51, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 5, 1996.

  • Shoumatoff, Alex. The World is Burning. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., 1990.

  • Shoumatoff, Alex. The Rivers Amazon. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1986.

  • Smith, Anthony. Explorers of the Amazon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

  • Smith, Nigel. The Enchanted Amazon Rainforest: Stories from a Vanishing World. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1996.

  • Smith, Nigel J. H. Rainforest Corridors : the Transamazon Colonization Scheme. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1982.

  • Smith, Nigel J. H. Man, Fishes, and the Amazon. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.

  • Sponsel, Leslie E., editor. Indigenous Peoples & the Future of Amazonia: An Ecological Anthropology of an Endangered World. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1995.

  • Stewart, Douglas Ian. After the Trees : Living on the Transamazon Highway. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.

  • Stone, Roger D. Dreams of Amazonia. New York: Viking Penguin, 1993.

  • Wilford, John Noble. “Sharp and To the Point In Amazonia.” Page C1, The New York Times, April 23, 1996.

  • Wilford, John Noble. “In an Amazon Cave, Light Is Shed on Early Americans.” Page A10, The New York Times, April 19, 1996.
 
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