...Lawrence A. Clayton Admiral of the Amazon: John Randolph Tucker, His Confederate Colleagues, and Peru . By Werlich David P. . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 1990 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xv , 353 pp. Cloth . $29.95...

...William T. Vickers War of Shadows: The Struggle for Utopia in the Peruvian Amazon . By Brown Michael F. and Fernández Eduardo . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1991 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv , 280 pp. Cloth . $29.95 . Copyright 1992...

...Robin L. Anderson The Life and Times of Grandfather Alonso: Culture and History in the Upper Amazon . By Muratorio Blanca . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 1991 . Photographs. Illustrations. Map. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xii , 295 pp. Paper...

...Kent H. Redford Amazon Frontier: The Defeat of the Brazilian Indians . By Hemming John . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 1987 . Maps. Photographs. Appendixes. Bibliography. Notes. Index . Pp. 647 . Cloth . $29.95 . Copyright 1988 by Duke University Press 1988...

... as unchanging because it gives readers no historical detail. It presents an ecological theory of value that cannot account for the dynamic flow of energy in and out of systems, and that overlooks the technical difficulties of executing research of region-wide significance in the Amazon, given its diversity...

... are possible, and the associated cultural patterns can be, and are, quite varied. The book contains a simple map, a dozen photographs and sketches, and a useful index. The Cubeo. Indians of the Northwest Amazon . By Goldman Irving . Urbana, Illinois , 1963 . The University of Illinois Press...

...Charles W. Arnade Schulthess is an honest man. He writes, “I knew only too well from my first Amazon trip that we would not find in the tropical forest of Amazonia that ‘photographer’s paradise’ that is presented to us in the rich technicolor of the illustrated papers and magazines. Just where...

... of 1966, several years after achieving fame by publishing his ten-volume Study of History . This magnum opus revealed a grasp of Latin American history somewhat less than satisfactory to specialists in this field. Copyright 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Between Maule and Amazon...

...Maury D. Baker Highways into the Upper Amazon Basin. Pioneer Lands in Southern Colombia, Ecuador, and Northern Peru . By Hegen Edmund Edward . Gainesville , 1966 . University of Florida Press . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 168 . Paper . $3.75...

...Shepard L. Forman Man in the Amazon . Edited by Wagley Charles . Gainesville , 1974 . The University Presses of Florida . Maps. Tables. Graphs . Pp. xvi , 330 . Cloth. $10.00 . Copyright 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 This volume results from the Twenty-third Annual...

...Walter N. Breymann The work includes three helpful maps and an excellent index. The legend of the Amazons, he concludes, can be explained in part as “a symbolic folktale common to many tribes of the Caribbean and South America” (p. 69). In the controversy over the precise route taken...

... in the Ecuadorean Amazon, for Pastaza Province, encompassing the Kichwa ethnolinguistic group of Sápara, Canelos Runa, Achuar, Napo Runa, Gaes, and Andoas peoples and, more recently, some Waorani kindreds. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Amazonian Kichwa of the Curaray River: Kinship...

...Ernesto Capello [email protected] The Metamorphosis of the Amazon: An Environmental History of Oil Extraction in Ecuador . By Maximilian Fritz Feichtner . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2023 . Photographs. Maps. Figure. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xx, 232 pp...

...Alfred Kidder, II Copyright 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 Archeological Investigations at the Mouth of the Amazon . By Meggers Betty J. and Evans Clifford . Washington, D. C. , 1957 . United States Government Printing Office . Smithsonian Institution. Bureau...

...Charles Wagley Wai-Wai. Through the Forest North of the Amazon . By Guppy Nicholas . New York , 1958 . E. P. Dutton . Illustrations. Index. Glossary . Pp. x , 373 . 85.95 . Copyright 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 ...

...David H. Stauffer The Indian Policy of Portugal in the Amazon Region, 1614-1693 . By Kiemen Mathias C. O. F. M. Washington, D. C. , 1954 . Catholic University of America Press . Glossary. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xii, 216 . $2.50 . Copyright 1955 by Duke University...

...Mary Wilhelmine Williams Copyright 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 Amazon Throne: The Story of the Braganzas of Brazil . By Harding Bertita . ( Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Company , 1941 . Pp. 353 . Illus. $3.50 .) ...

...Mary Wilhelmine Williams Copyright 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 The Amazon: The Life History of a Mighty River . By Haskins Caryl P. . ( Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Doran & Company , 1943 . Pp. xviii , 416 . Illus. $4.00 .) ...