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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...
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"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...
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Key hunters volume 6
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
119 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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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.
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The true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing 1914 exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth, a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 200 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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At the turn of the century, an expedition led by a brilliant but combative professor sets out from London, bound for the Amazon, where dinosaurs are rumored to have survived on a forgotten plateau deep in the jungle.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 6
Pub. Date
1995.
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67 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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Eight-year-old Jack, his seven-year-old sister, Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forests, where they encounter giant ants, flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars.
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[2012]
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2 videodiscs (344 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Follows the story of world famous wildlife expert and TV personality Dr. Emmet Cole, host of the beloved series The Undiscovered Country. After Cole goes missing deep in the Amazon, his family, friends, and crew set out on a haunting and treacherous adventure to find him. Led by his wife, Tess, and estranged son, Lincoln, the rescue mission will lead them deep into the unexplored regions on the Amazon River.
10) Relic
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When a team of archaeologists is savagely massacred in the Amazon Basin, all that survives are several boxes of relics and plant specimens. From boat to boat, from port- to port, the battered crates drift. They finally reach New York City-- only to be locked away in the basement of a museum, lost and forgotten. But the black heart of the Amazon never forgets. Just days before the Museum's massive new exhibition opens someone or something other than...
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[2019]
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1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Go undercover with a film crew on a perilous journey to the untouched wilderness of biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest. Meet some of the most incredible creatures, from agile pygmy marmosets and boisterous howler monkeys to solitary pumas and mesmerizing leaf-cutter ants, as the wild secrets of the jungle are revealed.
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Choose your own adventure volume 9
Pub. Date
[2005]
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114 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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English
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The Amazon River basin is home to the greatest biodiversity on planet earth. Will it yield up its potential cures, or sink you in its depths?
14) La casa verde
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Pub. Date
2015.
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529 pages ; 19 cm.
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Español
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"La novela ocurre en dos lugares muy alejados entre sí, Piura, en el desierto del litoral peruano, y Santa María de Nieva, una factoría y misión religiosa perdida en el corazón de la Amazonía. Símbolo de la historia es la mítica casa de placer que don Anselmo, el forastero, erige en las afueras de Piura. La casa verde (1965) recibió al año siguiente de su publicación el Premio de la Crítica y, en 1967, el Premio Internacional de Literatura...
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Pub. Date
2002.
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406 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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xxiii, 454 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"Cândido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked his way through jungles so inhospitable that even native peoples had avoided them--and led Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, on their celebrated "River of Doubt" journey in 1913-14. Upon leaving the Brazilian Army in 1930 with the rank of a two-star...
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Pub. Date
[1998]
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48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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Describes the experiences of an ethnobotanist in South America as he learns from Trio Indians the medicinal value of rainforest plants, and struggles to record the data before these ancient traditions vanish.
19) Into the Amazon
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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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Magic tree house volume 6
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
66 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Eight-year-old Jack, his seven-year-old sister, Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forests, where they encounter giant ants, flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars.
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