Where Is the Amazon?
Paperback – Illustrated, May 24, 2016
Penguin Young Readers Group · Paperback · May 24, 2016
Without risking life or limb, readers can explore the wonders and beauty of the Amazon in this Where Is...? title.
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- Who it’s for
- Explore the Amazon as a vast living system, full of beauty, danger, and planetary importance.
- Themes
- Amazon rainforest biodiversity, Rainforest scale, Human history along the Amazon
- Genres
- Caribbean & Latin America, All About Trees, Ecosystems & Environment
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Without risking life or limb, readers can explore the wonders and beauty of the Amazon in this Where Is...? title. Human beings have inhabited the banks of the Amazon River since 13,000 BC and yet they make up just a small percentage of the "population" of this geographic wonderland. The Amazon River basin teems with life—animal and plant alike.
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It's a rainforest that is home to an estimated 390 billion individual trees, 2.5 million species of insects, and hundreds of amazing creatures and plants that can either cure diseases, or, like the poison dart frog, kill with a single touch. Where Is the Amazon? reveals the amazing scale of a single rainforest that we are still trying to understand today and that, in many ways, supports our existence on this planet.
Rainforest Scale
Explore the Amazon as a vast living system, full of beauty, danger, and planetary importance.
Come here for
- A sense of the Amazon basin’s extraordinary scale
- The mingling of geographic wonder and ecological stakes
Expect
- A look at the rainforest’s abundant plant and animal life
- A reminder that this vast ecosystem supports life beyond its banks
Where it sits
| Caribbean & Latin America | 45% |
|---|---|
| All About Trees | 35% |
| Ecosystems & Environment | 33% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Illness & Injury
- Caribbean & Latin America
- Ecosystems & Environment
- Authors
- Sarah Fabiny
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- May 24, 2016
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Amazon rainforest biodiversity · Rainforest scale · Human history along the Amazon
- Reading lane
- Illness & Injury