Top 10 Books about the Amazon

1. Amazon : From the Floodplains to the Clouds

By Alex Webb Powerful photographs bring the Amazon to life in all its facets.

2. The Amazon River (English)

Mike Graf - Another in the series of travel and guide books to various locations around the world.

3. A Narrative Of Travels On The Amazon And Rio Negro:

by Alfred Russel Wallace (Author) - A young naturalist sets out to single-handedly explore the Amazon basin in the mid-19th century, his only help being Indian guides and interpreters.

4. Bradt Travel Guide the Amazon (English)

by Roger Harris (Author), Peter Hutchison (Author) - This guide includes all countries of the Amazon Basin and Orinoco; detailed natural history and expanded sections on national parks; revised information on tours, hotels, lodges, restaurants and attractions; towns with the best access to the river; new appendix of internet resources.

5. Brazil - The Amazon and Pantanal

By Les Beletsky, David L. Pearson - Photographs, identification plans, maps and descriptions of the lavish wildlife of these two areas.

6. Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice

Mark J. Plotkin - Western medicine is only just beginning to value the curative powers of plants and herbs found in the Amazon rain forests. The story of ethnobotanist Mark Plotkins's apprenticeship with shaman wise men of the area is truly an anthropological adventure, that also vividly clarifies what destruction of the rain forests may ultimately cost humanity. Photos."

7. One River

Wade Davis - "Ethnobotanist Wade Davis has spent many years in the rainforest, helping in their preservation. This is the story of his own explorations in the 1970s and the earlier ones of his mentor, Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes."

8. Paddle to the Amazon: The Ultimate 12,000-Mile Canoe Adventure

By Don Sarkell - Account of a father and son two-year canoe trip from Winnipeg to the Amazon includes harrowing encounters, wildlife sightings, near starvation and many more adventures.

9. Lost Amazon

by Wade Davis - The Photographic Journey Of Richard Evans Schultes - A collection of photographs and field notes documents the accomplishments of anthropologist and explorer Richard Evans Schultes and his expeditions into the wilderness of the Amazon basin, living among two dozen native tribes, mapping rivers, and collecting and classifying 30,000 botanical specimens, including 2,000 new medicinal plants.

10. The Amazon River (English)

by Anne Fitzpatrick - An overview of South America's Amazon River, which is approximately 4000 miles long.