ISBN: 9780871562104 - the rivers amazon (22 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Condizione: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condizione: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First Edition. First edition. Jacket in Fair condition with tears. No markings on text. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Fri.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Pictures on request.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Very Good -. First Edition. (1978), 258pp, illus., maps to eps, slight foxing to top pg edges, light rubbing & edgewear to dj, small ink mark to rear dj, contents clean & unmarked.

VG+/VG-. Dust jacket is rubbed and scuffed with a couple of closed tears ; The dust jacket is protected by a Brodart mylar cover. Most books shipped within 24 hours. ; B&W Photographs & Map; 8vo.; 258 pages. First Edition. Binding is Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. Previous Owner Stamp. Chronicles the author's extensive exploration of the Amazon Basin. It is widely considered a modern classic of South American travel writing, drawing frequent comparisons to the historical expeditions of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Walter Bates. Shoumatoff recounts his grueling eight-month odyssey navigating through the heart of Amazonia. He traveled by bus, plane, boat, and on foot to trace the massive river and its hidden tributaries back to their headwaters in the remote Peruvian Andes. The narrative interweaves the author's personal physical adventures with extensive observations on the region's complex social history, threatened ecosystems, exotic wildlife, and indigenous populations. This includes his experiences visiting remote Yanomamo Villages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Writer and naturalist Alex Shoumatoff went to Brazil in 1976 to explore the natural history and cultural ecology of Amazonia for this book. Following in the footsteps of the nineteenth-century explorer-naturalists Richard Spruce, Henry Bates, and Allfred Wallace, Shoumatoff traveled from the seaport in Belem at the mouth of the Amazon to the river's source in the Apurimac Valley of Peru. Whether he is describing the intricate life cycles of the rain forest, a chase through the riverine wilderness after turtle poachers, the medicinal properties of a rare plant, the anatomy of an exotic butterfly, or the haunting music of an isolated people, Shoumatoff is an intrepid, exciting guide to the Amazon. Fine, in green cloth, in VG (tape-reinforced inside jacket at spine and fold tops), mylar-protected dust jacket.…

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good in Dustjacket. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. San Francisco. 1978. Sierra Club Books. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0871562103. 258 pages. hardcover. photograph by Danny Delaney. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. keywords: Latin America Travel Amazon. DESCRIPTION - The Amazon Basin is the last great wooded wilderness of its kind on earth. Of the more than one million sorts of plants and animals that live in the region watered by the Amazon and its innumerable tributaries, scientists estimate that half have never been named. Here, too, dwell tribes that have scarcely been touched by civilization and some never even seen by white men. Writer and naturalist Alex Shoumatoff went to Brazil in 1976 to explore the natuxal history and cultural ecology of Amazonia for this book. Following in the footsteps of the nineteenth-century explorer-naturalists Richard Spruce, Henry Bates, and Alfred Wallace, Shoumatoff traveled from the seaport of Belom at the mouth of the Amazon to the river's source in the Apurimac Valley of Peru. Readers of the Washington Post followed his dispatches from the urban centers of Brazil, where he conducted research and interviewed officials and scientists, as well as from the outposts of civilization deep in the jungle or high in the Andes. Now the full story of Shoumatoff's remarkable journey is told here. Combining his personal adventures with a wealth of keenly observed natural and social detail, Shoumatoff creates a vivid composite portrait of Amazonia. On his way to the futuristic city of Brasilia, Shoumatoff visits a ranch along the new Transbrasilian highway, where settlers struggle to raise cattle on thousands of acres of burned-over jungle. He flies in a small plane to a Cayapo Indian village deep in the rain forest, where he lives for over a month; foots it on the jungle trail with three Stone Age Yanomamo Indians, one of them a shaman; floats down the wild Rio Catrimani in a dugout canoe; and treks across the high, treeless steppes of the Peruvian highlands, staying in the stone crofts of the Quechuas, whose way of life has changed little since the days of the Inca and the Spanish conquistadores. Shoumatoff's report focuses on the rapidly changing relationship between man and nature in Amazonia, which until recently has resisted exploitation. He examines the conflicting needs of resouxce development and preservation of natural ecosystems, wildlife, and indigenous cultures; and details the tragic fate of many native tribes that have been unable to adapt to change in their environment. Whether he is describing the intricate life cycles of the rain forest, a chase through the riverine wilderness after turtle poachers, the medicinal properties of a rare plant, the anatomy of an exotic butterfly, or the haunting music of an isolated people, Shoumatoff is an intrepid, exciting guide to the Amazon. A former Washington Post reporter, Alex Shoumatoff is resident naturalist at The Marsh Sanctuary, Mt. Kisco, New York. He is the author of Florida Ramble and a forthcoming book on Westchester County, and has contributed articles to Saturday Review, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone, among other periodicals. Shoumatoff is married to a Brazilian whom he met during his travels, and he has served as a guide on river cruises up the Amazon. inventory #6533.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1978. 1st edition, NF/VG. Book has some wear to spine ends & light color fade to spine. DJ has wear & chipping to upper spine, lighter wear to lower spine & corners, light wear to edges, light rubbing to panels. Illustrated with 21 b & w photos, map end-papers. Includes footnotes, bibliography and index. "Report focuses on the rapidly changing relationship between man and nature", throughout the vast expanse of the river and its many tributaries. Good historical background as well. Nice copy, 258 pp. BP. …

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. (1st) Green cloth with embossed design and very fine gilt on front, near very fine gilt on spine, map inside covers and adjacent end papers of Amazon Basin and small map of South America. DJ has white background with green, red and gold illustration at bottom front, spine and back. DJ has very tiny wrinkles at spine top, back very lightly soiled, light crease at bottom back edge. Near Fine DJ/Very Fine book. …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 258 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., map (on lining papers) ; 24 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 233-246. Subjects: Shoumatoff, Alex. Natural - history - Amazon - River Valley. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 258 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., map (on lining papers) ; 24 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 233-246. Subjects: Shoumatoff, Alex. Natural - history - Amazon - River Valley. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 258 pages.

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hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.