AMAZON IN GENERAL: SELECTED BOOKS
Agassiz, Louis, 1895. A Journey in Brazil. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin and Co.
Allen, Benedict, 1985. Who Goes Out in the Midday Sun? An Englishman's Trek through the Amazon Jungle. New York, NY: Viking.
Anderson, Anthony B., ed., 1990. Alternatives to Deforestation: Steps Toward Sustainable Use if the Amazon Forest. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Arens, Richard, 1976. Genocide in Paraguay.
Babira-Scazzocchio, Francois, ed., 1980. Land, People and Planning in Contemporary Amazonia. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Balee, William, 1994. Footprints of the Forest. NY: Columbia UP.
Bates, Henry Walter, 1962. The Naturalist on the River Amazons. Berkkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Bates, Marston, 1952. Where Winter Never Comes. New York, NY: Scribners.
Bedall, Barbara G., 1970. Wallace and Bates in the Tropics. New York, NY: Collier-Macmillan.
Berwick, Dennison, 1992. Savages: The Life and Killing of the Yanomami. London: Hutchinson.
Boddard, Lucien, 1971. Green Hell: Massacre of the Brazilian Indians. New York, NY: E. P. Dutton.
Bourne, R., 1978. Assault on the Amazon. London, UK: Gollancz.
Browder, John O., ed., 1989. Fragile Lands of Latin America. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Browder, John O., 1997. Rainforest Cities: Urbanization, Development, and Globalization of the Brazilian Amazon. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Bruhns, Karen Olsen, 1996. Ancient South America. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Bunker, Stephen G., 1985. Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange and the Failure of the Modern State. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Clay, Jason W., 1988. Indigenous Peoples and Tropical Forests: Models of Land Use and Management from Latin America. Cambridge, MA: Cultural Survival, Inc.
Cleary, David, 1991. Anatomy of the Amazon Gold Rush. Iowa City, IO: University of Iowa Press.
Colby, Gerard, 1995. Thy Will Be Done: The COnquest of the Amazon: Nelso Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil. New York, NY: Harper Collins.
Collier, Richard, 1968. The River that God Forgot: The Story of the Amazon Rubber Boom. New York, NY: Dutton.
Cowell, Adrian, 1990. The Decade of Destruction: The Crusade to Save the Amazon Rain Forest. New York, NY: Henry Holt & Co.
Crosby, Alfred W., Jr., 1972. The COlumbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
Cummings, Barbara J., 1990. Dam the River, Damn the People: Development and Resistance in Amazonian Braizl. Washington, D.C.: Island Press/Earthscan.
Davis, Shelton H., 1977. Victims of the Miracle: Development and the Indians of Brazil. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Davis, Wade, 1996. One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest. New York, NY: SImon and Schuster.
Denevan, William M., ed., 1992. The Native Population of the Americas in 1492. Madison, WI: University of Madison Press.
Denslow, Julie Sloan, and Christine Padoch, eds., 1988. People of the Tropical Rain Forest. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
De Onis, Juan, 1992. The Green Cathedral: Sustainable Development of Amazonia. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.
Dickenson, Robert E., 1987. The Geophysiology of Amazonia: Vegetation and Climate Interactions. New York, NY: John Wiley.
Dostal, W., ed., 1971. The Situation of the Indian in South America. Geneva, Switzerland: World Council of Churches.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 1977. The Lost World. New York, NY: Buccaneer Books.
Dwyer, Augusta, 1990. Into the Amazon: The Struggle for the Rain Forest. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books.
Eden, Michael, 1990. Ecology and Land Management in Amazonia. New York, NY: Belhaven Press.
Eisenberg, John F., 1989. Mammals of the Neotropics: The Northern Neotropics. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Emmons, Louise H., 1990. Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: a Field Guide. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Fearnside, Philip M., 1986. Human Carrying Capacity of the Brazilian Rainfgorest. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Fittkau, E.J., 1968. Biogeography and Ecology in South America. The Hauge, The Netherlands: Dr. W. Junk Publisher.
Fleming, Peter, 1934. Brazilian Adventure. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Foresta, Ronald A., 1991. Amazon Conservation in the Age of Development: The Limits of Providence. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press.
Furneaux, Robin, 1969. The Amazon: The Story of a Great River. London, UK: Hamilton.
Gash, J.H.C., et al., 1996. Amazonian Deforestation and Climate. New York, NY: John Wiley.
Gennino, Angela, ed., 1990. Amazonia: Voices from the Rainforest. San Francisco, CA: Rainforest Action Network.
Gentry, Alwyn H., ed., 1990. Four Neotropical Forests. New Haven, CT: University Press.
Gheerbrandt, Alain, 1992. The Amazon: Past, Present and Future. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Giddings, J. Calvin, 1996. Demonic River Apurimac. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press.
Golley, F.B., ed., 1983. Tropical Rain Forest Ecosystems. New York, NY: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co.
Gomez-Pompa, A., T.C. Whitmore, and M. Hadley, eds., 1991. Rain Forest Renegeration and Management. Park Ridge, N.J.: Parthenon Publishing Group.
Goodman, David, and Anthony Hall, eds., 1990. The Future of Amazonia: Destruction of Sustainable Development? New York, NY: St. Martin's Press.
Goodman, Edward J., 1972. The Explorers of South America. New York, NY: Macmillan.
Goulding, Michael, 1980. Fishes of the Forest: Explorations in Amazonian Natural History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Goulding, Michael, 1989. Amazon: The Flooded Forest. London, UK: BBC Books.
Goulding, Michael, M.L. Carvalho, and E.G. Ferreira, 1988. Rio Negro, Rich Life in Poor Water: Amazonian Diversity and Foodchain Ecology as Seen Through Fish Communities. The Hague, Netherlands: SPB Academic Books.
Goulding, Michael, Nigel J.H. Smith, and Dennis J. Mahar, 191996. Floods of Fortune: Ecology and Economy Along the Amazon. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Gross, Daniel R., ed., 1973. Peoples and Cultures of Native South America. New York, HY: Doubleday.
Gross, Tony, 1991. Fight for the Forest: Chicao Mendes in His Own Words. New York, NY: Monthly Review Press.
Guimaraes, Roberto P., 1991. The Ecopolitics of Development in the Third World: Politics and Environment in Brazil. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Gunther, John, 1967. Inside South America. London, UK: Hamish Hamilton.
Hall, Anthony L., 1991. Developing Amazonia: Deforestation and Social Conflict in Brazil's Carajas Programme. Manchester, UK: University of Manchester Press.
Hames, Raymond B., and William T. Vickers, eds., 1983. Adaptive Responses of NAtive Amazonians. New York, NY: Academic Press.
Hecht, Susanna B., and Alexander Cockburn, 1989. The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon. New York, NY: Verso.
Hegen, Edmund E., 1966. Highways into the Upper Amazon Basin: Pioneer Lands in Southern Colombia. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press.
Hemming, John, 1978. The Search for El Dorado. New York, NY: E.P. Dutton.
Hemming, John, 1978. Red Gold: The Conquest of the Brazilian Indians 1500-1760. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Hemming, John, 1987. Amazon Frontier: The Defeat of the Brazilian Indians. London, UK: Macmillan.
Hemming, John, ed., 1985. Change in the Amazon Basin. Manchester, UK: University of Manchester Press.
Henderson, Andrew, 1995. The Palms of the Amazon. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Hillman, Richard S., 1994. Understanding Contemporary Latin America. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Hladik, C.M., et al., eds., 1993. Tropical Forests, People and Food: Biocultural Interactions and Applications. Paris, France: UNESCO/Parthenon Publishing Group.
Holdstock, Robert, 1985. The Emerald Forest. New York, NY: NY Zoetrope.
Hudson, W.H., 1976. Green Mansions. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf.
Hvalkof, Soren, and Peter Aby, 1981. Is God an American? An Anthropological Perspective on the Missionary Work of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. Copenhagen, Denmark: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs.
Jordan, Carl F., 1985. Nutrient Cycling in Tropical Forest Ecosystems: Principles and Their Application in Management and COnservation. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons.
Jordan, Carl F., 1987. An Amazonian Rainforest: The Structure and Function of a Nutrient Stressed Ecosystem and the Impact of Slah-and-Burn Agriculture. New York, NY: Parthenon Publishing Group.
Jordan, Carl F., 1991. Amazonian Rain Forests: Ecosystem Disturbance and Recovery. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag.
Junk, W.J., 1997. The Central Amaoznian River Floodplains: Ecology of a Pulsing System. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, Inc.
Kahn, Francis, and Jean-Jacques de Granville, 1992. Palms in Forest Ecosystems of Amazonia. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag.
Kane, Joe, 1995. Savages. New York, NY: Vintage Books/Random House.
Katz, Daniel R., and Miles Chapin, 1995. Tales from the Jungle: A Rainforest Reader. New York, NY: Crown Publishing Group.
Kelly, Brian, and Mark London, 1983. Amazon. New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich.
Kimerling, Judith, 1991. Amazon Crude. Washington, D.C.: Natural Resources Defense Council.
Kinzey, Warren, ed., 1997. New World Primates: Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
Klein, Harriet, W. Manelis, and Louisa R. Stark, eds., 1985. South American Indian Languages: Retrospect and Prospect. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
Kricher, John C., 1997. A Neotropical Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Lathrap Donald W., 1970. The Upper Amazon. London, UK: Thames and Hudson.
Le Breton, Binka, 1993. Voices from the Amazon. West Hartfoed, CT: Kumarian Press.
Loukotka, Cestmir, 1968. Classification of South American Indian Languages. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Latin American Center.
Lowe-McConnell, R.H., 1975. Fish Communities in Tropical Freshwaters: Their Distribution, Ecology, and Evolution. London, UK: Longman.
Lowe-McConnell, R.H., 1977. Ecology of Fishes in Tropical Waters. London, UK: Arnold.
Lowe-McConnell, R.H., 1987. Ecological Studies in Tropical Fish Communities. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Lyons, Patricia J., ed., 1974. Native South Americans: Ethnology of the Least Known Continent. Boston, MA: Little and Brown.
MacCreagh, Gordon, 1961. White Waters and Black. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
MacMillan, Gordon, 1994. At the End of the Rainbow?: Gold, Land and People in the Brazilian Amazon. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Mahar, Dennis J., 1979. Frontier Development Policy in Brazil: A Study of Amazonia. New York, NY: Praeger.
Mahar, Dennis J., 1991. Government Policies and Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon Region. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank.
Manthorne, Katherine Emma, 1997. Tropical Renaissance: North American Artists Exploring Latin America 1839-1879. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Mares, Michael A., and David J. Schmidly, 1991. Latin American Mammalogy. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
Margolis, Mac, 1992. The Last New World: The Conquest of the Amazon Frontier. New York, NY: W.W. Norton.
Maslow, Jonathan, 1996. Footsteps in the Jungle: Adventures in the Scientific Exploration of the American Tropics. Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee.
Matthiessen, Peter, 1961. The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness. New York, NY: Viking Press.
Matthiessen, Peter, 1965. At Play in the Fields of the Lord. New York, NY: Random House.
Maxwell, Nicole, 1975. Witch Doctor's Apprentice. New York, NY: Collier Books.
May, John, 1987. The Survival of Jan Little.
McIntyre, Loren, 1991. Amazonia. San Franciso, CA: Sierra Club Books.
Mee, Margaret, 1988. In Search of Medicinal Plants of the Rainforest. Woodbridge, UK: Nonesuch Expeditions.
Mendes, Chico, and Tony Gross, 1992. Fight for the Forest: Chico Mendes in His Own Words. London, UK:
Medina, Jose T., ed., 1988. The Discovery of the Amazon. New York, NY: Dover.
Meggers, Betty J., 1996. Amazonia: Man and Culture in a Counterfeit Paradise. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Meunier, Jacques, 1994. The Amazonian Chronicles. San Francisco, CA: Mercury House.
Monbiot, George, 1991. Amazon Watershed: The New Environmental Investigation. London, UK: Michael Joseph.
Moran, Emilio F., 1981. Developing the Amazon. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Moran, Emilio F., ed., 1983. The Dilemma of Amazon Development. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Moran, Emilio F., 1993. Through Amazon Eyes: The Ecology of Human Populations in the Amazon. Iowa City, IO: University of Iowa Press.
Mowat, Linda, 1989. Cassava and Chicha: Bread and Beer of the Amazonian Indians. Aylesbury, Bucks, England: Shire Publications.
Moynihan, M., 1976. The New World Primates. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Mueller, Marnie, 1994. Green Fires: Assault on Eden: A Novel of the Ecuadorian Rainforest. Boston, MA: Curbstone Press.
Myers, Norman, 1992. The Primary Source: Tropical Forests and Our Future. New York, NY: Norton.
O'Hanlon, Redmond, 1988. In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon. New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press.
O'Leary, Timothy J., 1963. Ethnographic Bibliography of South America. New Haven, CT: Human Relations Area Files.
Olien, Michael D., 1973. Latin Americans: Contemporary Peoples and Their Cultural Traditions. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Ozorio de Almeida, Anna L., 1992. The Colonization of the Amazon. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
Pace, N., 1997. Struggle for "Amazon Town". Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Palmatary, Helen Constance, 1965. The River Amazons: Its Discovery and Early Exploration 1500-1743. New York, NY: Carlton Press.
Parker, E.P., 1985. The Amazon Caboclo: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Williamsburg, VA: Studies in Third World Societies.
Parry, J.H., 1979. The Discovery of South America. New York, NY: Taplinger.
Payne, Dorris L., 1990. Amazonian Linguistics: Studies in Lowland South American Languages. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
Place, Susan E, ed., 1993. Tropical Rainforests: Latin American Nature and Society in Transition. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc.
Plotkin, Mark J., 1993. Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searchers for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest. New York: Viking.
Plotkin, Mark J., and Lisa Famolare, eds., 1992. Sustainable Harvest and Marketing of Rain Forest Produce. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
Posey, DarrellA., and William Balee, eds., 1989. Resource Management in Amazonia: Indigenous and Folk Strategies. Bronx, NY: New York Botanical Garden Advances in Economic Botany No 7.
Prance, Ghillean T., ed., 1982. Biological Diversification in the Tropics. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Prance, Ghillean T., and J.A. Kallunki, eds., 1983. Ethnobotany in the Neotropics. Bronx, NY: Botanical Garden.
Prance, Ghillean T., and Thomas Lovejoy, eds., 1985. Amazonia. New York, NY: Pergamon Press.
Price, Richard, and Sally Price, 1992. Equatoria. New York, NY: Routledge.
Raffles, Hugh, 2002. In Amazonia: A Natural History. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Ramos, Alcida R., and Kenneth I. Taylor, 1979. The Yanomami in Brazil 1979. Copenhagen, Denmark: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs.
Redford, Kent H., and John F. Eisenberg, eds., 1989. Advances in Neotropical Mammalogy. Gainesville, FL: The Sanhill Crane Press, Inc.
Redford, Kent H., and Christine Padoch, eds., 1992. Conservation of Neotropical Forests: Working from Traditional Resource Units. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Revkin, Andrew, 1991. The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin.
Ribeiro, Darcy, 1968. The Civilizational Process. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.
Ribeiro, Darcy, 1972. The Americas and Civilization. New York, NY: E.P. Dutton.
Ricciardi, Mirella, 1991. The Vanishing Amazon. New York, NY: Abrams.
Robinson, John G., and Kent H. Redford, eds., 1991. Neotropical Wildlife Use and Conservation. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Roosevelt, Anna C., 1980. Parmana: Prehistoric Maize and Manioc Subsistence along the Amazon and Orinoco. New York, NY: Academic Press.
Roosevelt, Anna C., 1991. Moundbuilders of the Amazon: Geophysical Archaeology on Marajo Island, Brazil. New York, NY: Academic Press.
Roosevelt, Anna C., ed., 1994. Amazonian Indians from Prehistory to the Present: Anthropological Perspectives. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
Rudel, Thomas K., 1993. Tropical Deforestation: Small Farmers and Land Clearing in the Ecuadorian Amazon. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Salzano, Francisco M., and Sidia M. Callegari-Jacques, 1988. South American Indians: A Case Study in Evolution. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Schmink, Marianne, 1992. Contested Frontiers in Amazonia. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Schmink, Marianne, and Charles Wood, eds., 1985. Frontier Expansion in Amazonia. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press.
Schneebaum, Alex, 1969. Keep the River on Your Right. New York, NY: Grove Press.
Schultes, Richard Evans, 1988. Where the Gods Reign: Plants and Peoples of the Colombian Amazon. Oracle, AZ: Synergetic Press.
Schultes, Richard E., and Robert F. Raffauf, 1990. The Healing Forest: Medicinal and Toxic Plants of the Northwest Amazon. Eugene, OR: Timber Press.
Schumann, Debra A., and William L. Partridge, eds., 1986. The Human Ecology of Tropical Land Settlement in Latin America. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Seaward, M.R.D., and S.M.D. Fitzgerald, eds., 1996. Richard Spruce (1817-1893): Botanist and Explorer. Richmond, Surrey: Royal Botanic Garden.
Seidl, Peter Rudolf, et al., eds., 1995. Chemistry of the Amazon: Biodiversity, Natural Products, and Environmental Issues. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society.
Shane, D.R., 1986. Hoofprints on the Forest: Cattle Ranching and the Destruction of Latin America's Tropical Forests. Philadelphia, PA: Institute for the Study of Human Issues.
Shoumatoff, Alex, 1986. The Rivers Amazon. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books.
Shoumatoff, Alex, 1991. The World Is Burning. Boston, MA: Little, Brown.
Sioli, Harald, ed., 1984. The Amazon: Limnology and Landscape Ecology of a Mighty Tropical River and its Basin. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Dr. W. Junk Publishers.
Slater, Candace, 2002. Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Smith, Anthony, 1990. Explorers of the Amazon. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Smith, Nigel J.H., 1982. Rainforest Corridors: The Transamazon Colonization Scheme. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Smith, Nigel J.H., 1996. The Enchanted Amazon Rainforest. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press.
Smith, Nigel J.H., 1995. Amazonia: Prehistory and Dynamism of the Land and Its People. Tokyo, Japan: United Nations University Press.
Sponsel, Leslie E., ed., 1995. Indigenous Peoples & the Future of Amazonia: An Ecological Anthropology of an Endangered World. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
Spruce, Richard, 1908. Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes. London, UK: Macmillan.
Stahl, Peter W., ed., 1995. Archaeology in the Lowland American Tropics: Current Analytical Methods and Recent Applications. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Steen, Harold K., and Richard P. Tucker, eds., 1992. Changing Tropical Forests: Historical Perspectives on Today's Challenges in Central and South America. Durham, NC: Forest History Society.
Stepan, Nancy Leys, 2001, Picturing Tropical Nature. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Stewart, Douglas Ian, 1994. After the Trees: Living on the Transamazon Highway. Austin, TX: university of Texas Press.
Steward, Julian H., ed., 1944-1957. Handbook of South American Indians. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143, volumes 1-7.
Stewart, Julian H., and Louis C. Faron, 1959. Native Peoples of South America. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.
Stoll, David, 1982. Fishers of Men or Founders of Empires? The Wycliffe Bible Translators in Latin America. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Zed Press.
Stone, Roger D., 1993. Dreams of Amazonia. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
Terborgh, John, 1983. Five New World Primates: A Study in Comparative Ecology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Tierney, Patrick, 1997. Last Tribes of Eldorado: The Gold Wars in the Amazon Rainforest. New York, NY: Viking/Penguin.
Tomlinson, H.M., 1964. The Sea and the Jungle. New York, NY:
Townsend, Janet Gabriel, 1995. Women's Voices from the Rainforest. New York, NY: Routledge.
Urban, Greg, 1991. A Discourse-Centered Approach to Culture: Native South American Myths and Rituals. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
Verne, Jules, 1952. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon. New York, NY: Didier.
Wallace, Alfred Russell, 1905. Narrative of Travels on the Amaozn and Rio Negro. New York, NY: Reeve and Co.
Watters, R.F., 1971. Shifting Cultivation in Latin America. Rome: FAO.
Weinstein, Barbara, 1983. Amazon Rubber Boom: 1850-1920. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Whitmore, T.C., and G.T. Prance, eds., 1987. Biogeography and Quaternary History in Tropical America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Willey, Gordon R., 1971. Introduction to American Archaeology: Volume 2, South America. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.