Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon

Candace Slater takes us on a journey into the Amazon that will forever change our ideas about one of the most written—about, filmed, and fought—over areas in the world. In this book she deftly traces a rich and marvelous legacy of stories and images of the Amazon that reflects the influence of widely different groups of people—conquistadors, corporate executives, subsistence farmers —over the centuries. A careful, passionate consideration of one of the most powerful environmental icons of o...