In Amazonia. A natural history

This book casts new light on centuries of encounter while describing the dramatic remaking of a sweeping landscape by residents of one small community in the Brazilian Amazon. Tehe author moves between a detailed narrative that analyzes the production of scientic knowledge about Amazonia over the centuries and an absorving account of the extraordinary transformations to the fluvial landscape carried out over the past forty years by the inhabitants of Igarapé Guariba.