Soldiers, Scientists and Sorcerers: Explorers on the Rio Negro |
A literature review of early explorer accounts of this important tributary of the Amazon River.
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Sustainable Community Luthier Workshop in Manaus |
Visit a workshop where poor youths learn to make instruments with lumber from sustainable logging operations.
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Madeira-Mamoré: Amazon Railway to Hell |
A threadbare group of volunteers struggles to maintain a century-old railway that cuts through a stretch of the Amazon forest in the state of Rondônia. Shopping mall development threatens a main station. An international movement hopes to turn the Estrada de Ferro Madeira-Mamoré into a true eco-cultural tourist attraction.
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Dead Treasures Tell No Tales |
But old-timer Antonio Pedro tells his in Praia do Rosa, Santa Catarina.
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| Môa River, Acre, by Paula Sampaio (2006 Porto Seguro Photography Prize) |
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