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2) Amazon
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Explore the mysterious Amazon and celebrate the beauty, vitality and wonder of this magical rain forest. This is a collaboration between an American scientist and a tribal shaman.
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 9
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
©1983
Language
English
Description
The reader determines the course of the adventures of an expedition exploring the Amazon jungle.
Series
Publisher
World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of mysteries concerning the Amazon rain forest that have puzzled scholars, explorers, and experts. Discusses evidence for large, pre-Columbian urban areas in the Amazon and why such urban centers went undiscovered for so long. Features include maps, fact boxes, biographies of famous experts on Amazonian culture, places to see and visit, a glossary, further readings, and index"-- Provided by publisher.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Come along on a rollicking thrill-ride down the Amazon with wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff and intrepid researcher Dr. Lily Houghton. Lily travels from London, England to the Amazon jungle and enlists Frank's questionable services to guide her downriver on La Quila, his ramshackle-but-charming boat. Lily is determined to uncover an ancient tree with unparalleled healing abilities, possessing the power to change the future of medicine. Thrust on...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"I did have a murderous trip down South, but it was mighty interesting." In October 1913, Theodore Roosevelt arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on a tour of South America. The thrill-seeking adventurer had no idea that he would soon receive an offer he couldn't refuse: the chance to lead an expedition deep into the Amazon jungle to chart an unmapped river with his son Kermit and renowned Brazilian explorer Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon. Death on...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 6
Publisher
Lectorum Publications
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Español
Description
¿Murciélagos vampiro y hormigas soldado? Annie y Jack se encuentran con estas criaturas cuando la casa del árbol los leeva al bossque tropical, en la cuenca del Amazonas"--back cover.
10) The risky rescue
Author
Series
Key hunters volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Evan and Cleo sneak into the enchanted library at night they find that Locke has already forced his way into a book, and when they follow they find themselves in a plane that promptly crashes into the Amazon rainforest--and with the help of a boy named Gabriel, (and a friendly sloth) they have to survive the jungle and find the golden statue that is the next treasure in their quest before Locke gets his hands on it.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Determined to prove the existence of 'The lost world', dashing adventurer and scholar Professor George Challenger mounts a British expedition team of consisting of a mismatched group of enthusiasts, all with less than selfless reasons for making the journey. Traveling through the uncharted Amazon jungle to this prehistoric plateau, the group encounters tribal head hunters, vicious apemen, giant crocodiles and terrifying dinosaurs.
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Join the Unknown Adventurer again on this thrilling adventure into the Amazon, which begins with a map discovered in the Royal Geographical Society showing a river that has been mysteriously rubbed out. It leads the Unknown Adventurer and his companion Bibi into a search for this 'last river' that will change their understanding of nature forever" -- Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Trilogy of adventures, magical realism and nature. Alexander Cold, a fifteen-year-old American boy, his grandmother Kate, a travel reporter, and Nadia Santos, a very special companion of adventures.
La pluma mágica de Allende nos invita a conocer, en esta preciosa trilogía de aventuras, realismo mágico y naturaleza, a Alexander Cold, un muchacho americano de quince años; a su abuela Kate, una reportera de viajes; y a Nadia Santos, una compañera...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Into the Amazon tells the remarkable story of the journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon into the heart of the South American rain forest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon. Two of the most celebrated men from their respective nations, Roosevelt and Rondon set out with twenty other adventurers in 1914. Over eight eventful weeks in one of the most remote places on earth, the ill-equipped...
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