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A Land of Ghosts
The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far Western Amazonia
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A Land of Ghosts
The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far Western Amazonia
About this book
The biologist and award-winning author journeys deep inside the Amazon rainforest in this eloquent and insightful look at one of earth's last wild places.
For thirty years, biologist David G. Campbell has been exploring the lush wilderness, of the western Amazon, which contains more species than ever existed anywhere on our planet. In A Land of Ghosts, Campbell takes readers on his latest venture.
In Cruzeiro do Sul, 2,800 miles from the mouth of the Amazon, Campbell collects three old friends: Arito, a caiman hunter turned paleontologist; Tarzan, a street urchin brought up in a bordello; and Pimentel, a master canoe pilot. Heading further into the rainforest, they survey every living woody plant they can find. The land is so rich that an area of less than fifty acres contains three times as many tree species as all of North America.
Campbell knows the trees individually, and he knows the wildlife and the people as well: the recently arrived colonists with their failing farms; the Caboclos, masters of hunting, fishing, and survival; and the refugee Native Americans. These people live in a land whose original inhabitants were wiped out by centuries of disease, slavery, and genocide, taking their traditions and languages with them: a land of ghosts.
For thirty years, biologist David G. Campbell has been exploring the lush wilderness, of the western Amazon, which contains more species than ever existed anywhere on our planet. In A Land of Ghosts, Campbell takes readers on his latest venture.
In Cruzeiro do Sul, 2,800 miles from the mouth of the Amazon, Campbell collects three old friends: Arito, a caiman hunter turned paleontologist; Tarzan, a street urchin brought up in a bordello; and Pimentel, a master canoe pilot. Heading further into the rainforest, they survey every living woody plant they can find. The land is so rich that an area of less than fifty acres contains three times as many tree species as all of North America.
Campbell knows the trees individually, and he knows the wildlife and the people as well: the recently arrived colonists with their failing farms; the Caboclos, masters of hunting, fishing, and survival; and the refugee Native Americans. These people live in a land whose original inhabitants were wiped out by centuries of disease, slavery, and genocide, taking their traditions and languages with them: a land of ghosts.
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Index
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
Abiu fruits, 133–34
Acaba da igreja (“wasp of the church”), 50. See also Wasps
Acaba da noite (night wasp), 81–82, 128–29. See also Wasps
Acaba tatu (“armadillo wasp”), 129. See also Wasps
Académie Royale des Sciences, 54, 56
Açaí palms, 49, 71, 96, 151–52
Acariquara trees, 147
Acre, 3, 58–59, 62–68, 180–81, 212. See also Cruzeiro do Sul; Native Americans; Rubber tapping; Transamazon Highway, Tropical forest
Acuña, Cristobal de, 164–65
Aedes aegypti, 162–63
Africa, 162–63
Agouti, 71, 123
Agriculture. See Farming
Agrovilas, 92–95, 102–5
Água estapada, 156
Aldeias (villages), 163–64, 166–67, 171
Alexa imperatricus, 224 n.4.
Algae, 39, 43, 152, 153, 198
fossilized, 207–8, 228 n.4.
Allelopathy, 225 n.4.
Alpha Centauri constellation, 32
Amapá trees, 225 nn.4.–5
Amazon River, 14, 27, 53, 55, 63, 67, 226 n.4. See also entries for rios
Amazon River Valley. See also Expedition; Tropical forest; and entries for specific plants and animals
biological diversity of, 7, 12, 16, 108, 116, 119–22, 222–23 n.17.
cultures of, 2–3
Ice Ages in, 118–19, 121, 122
number of species in, 7, 12, 108
scientific studies of, 3–7, 11–12, 28, 92, 97, 105, 108–11, 120, 135–41
Victorian view of, 116–18
as wilderness, 7, 14
Ameiva lizards, 36, 128, 132. See also Lizards
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Maps
- Prologue
- Southern Cross
- River of Light
- An Expedition of Poets
- River of Hunger
- What the Bees Said
- Photos
- On the Line
- The Naming of Parts
- The Gift
- River of Terns
- A Land of Ghosts
- Angelim
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Species Descriptions and Glossary of Portuguese Words
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author