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The Amazon is a land of superlatives. The complex ecosystem covers an area about the size of the continental U.S. The Amazon River discharges 57 million gallons of water per …

In 1941, Richard Evans Schultes took a leave of absence from Harvard University and disappeared into the Northern Amazon of Colombia. The world's leading authority on the …

With a new introduction, the acclaimed author of Conquistador and Labyrinth of Ice charts one of history’s greatest adventures of discovery, a legendary 16th-century explorer’s …

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2021Discover this breathtaking collection of short stories from the bestselling author of North Woods, Daniel Mason. On a fated flight, …

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2021Discover this breathtaking collection of short stories from the bestselling author of North Woods, Daniel Mason. On a fated flight, …

Ayahuasca has gained significant popularity these days in cities around the world. Why? What effect might ayahuasca be having on our culture? Does this psychoactive brew, which …

Responding to pressure from the United States, the Colombian government in 1996 intensified aerial fumigation of coca plantations in the western Amazon region. This crackdown on …

With a complex assemblage of largely intact ecosystems that support the earth's greatest diversity of life, the Amazon basin is a focal point of international scientific interest. …

The book represents a multidisciplinary approach to understanding soil–landscape–vegetation relationships and, specifically, the ecophysiology of plant communities developing on …

Transforming Indigeneity is an examination of the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the …