Tree of Rivers

John Hemming was Director of the Royal Geographical Society for over twenty years. He has travelled extensively in the Amazon region, where he experienced many of the same thrills and hardships as the naturalists featured in this book. He was awarded Peru’s highest civil decoration, the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit.

• 1. Arrival of Strangers • 2. Anarchy on the Amazon • 3. The Empty River • 4. Directorate to Cabanagem • 5. A Naturalist’s Paradise • 6. The Rubber Boom • 7. The Black Side of Rubber • 8. Explorers and Indians • 9. Archaeologists Find Early Man • 10. Planes, Chainsaws and Bulldozers • 11. The Largest River in the Largest Forest

'The book is a tour de force, nearly as rich and fascinating as the place itself' - New Scientist