Amazon River Rain Forest

One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest by Wade Davis,

In the 1940s, biologist Richard Evans Schultes uncovered many of the secrets of the rain forest, relying not only on his own prodigious investigations, but on the wisdom passed down by local tribes. Thirty years later his student, Wade Davis, followed in his footsteps. Two interwoven tales of scientific adventure bring to life the riches of the Amazon basin amazon river rain forest and bear witness to the destruction of its indigenous culture amazon river rain forest and natural wonders over two generations. photos.
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Witness the greatest collection of diversity ever produced. "The Greatest Places" is a large-format film that takes you on a journey to seven of the most geographically dynamic locations on Earth - The Amazon, The Namib Desert, Greenland, The Okavango Delta, Iguazu Falls, Tibet, amazon river rain forest and Madagascar. Amazon: This mightiest of rivers forms a network of water channels that permeates nearly half of South America. "There's one sound you always here in all the old jungle movies. I expected to her that sound in the Amazon rain forest, amazon river rain forest and it's absence surprised me." -Robin Tams, Assistant Cameraman Greenland: Harsh, foreboding amazon river rain forest and almost completely buried beneath a cap of permanent ice amazon river rain forest and snow, Greenland is the world's largest island. It is estimated that some 10,000 to 15,00 icebergs are calved by Greenland's glaciers each year. "When the ice calves off the icebergs, there is a huge explosion that sounds like a bomb."-Mike Braniger, Key Grip Iguazu Falls: Strung out along the rim of a crescent-shaped cliff about 2.5 miles along, some 275 individual cascades amazon river rain forest and waterfalls plummet up to 269 feet into the gorge below. The thunderous roaring can be heard from miles away. "It's like white noise on a million televisions with the volume turned all the way up!" -Vince Purcell, Sound Recordist Namib Desert: Stretching 1,200 miles in length, but averaging a width of only 70 miles, the Namib Desert is home to the highest sand dunes in the world. "It's absolutely silent: On a windless day, sometimes all you can hear is a deep, deafening silence." -Mal Wolf, Director Okavango Delta: A 6,000 square-mile maze of lagoons, channels amazon river rain forest and islands helps Okavango earn the description , "the river that never finds the sea." Think hippos are nice amazon river rain forest and slow? Think again! Ever try making your own paper? The first paper was made out of papyrus, still found in Okavango. Tibet: The Chang Tang plateau, at an average height of 15,000 feet, gives birth to many of Asia's mightiest rivers.
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Quinalt Rain Forest - The Quinalt Rain Forest is a rain forest in the US state of Washington in the valley formed by the Quinault River and Lake Quinalt. The valley is called the "Valley of the Rain Forest Giants" because of the number of record size tree species located there.

Camu Camu - The Camu camu (Myrciaria dubia), also known as CamuCamu, Cacari, and Camocamo, is a small (approx. 3 m tall) bushy river side tree from the Amazon rain forest region of Peru, which bears a red/purple cherry like fruit.

Essequibo River - The Essequibo River is the longest river in Guyana, and the largest river between the Orinoco and Amazon. Rising in the Acarai Mountains near the Brazil-Guyana border, the Essequibo flows to the north for 1,000 kilometres through forest and savanna into the Atlantic Ocean.

Jurua - The Jurua River is the next great southern affluent of the Amazon River west of the Purus, sharing with this the bottom of the immense inland Amazon depression, and having all the characteristics of the Purus as regards curvature, sluggishness and general features of the low, half-flooded forest country it traverses. It rises among the Ucayali highlands, and is navigable and unobstructed for a distance of 1133 miles (1823 km) above its junction with the Amazon.

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