Where is the Amazon?
Without risking life or limb, readers can explore the wonders and beauty of the Amazon in this Where Is...? title. The Amazon River basin, inhabited by humans since 13000 BC, is a geographic wonderland with a rich diversity of life. Home to an estimated 390 billion individual trees, 2.5 million species of insects, and numerous amazing creatures and plants, this rainforest holds secrets that can cure diseases or cause harm. Discover the vastness and importance of the Amazon rainforest in Where Is the Amazon?
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Without risking life or limb readers can explore the wonders and beauty of the Amazon in this Where Is...? title.
Human beings have inhabited the banks of the Amazon River since 13000 BC and yet they make up just a small percentage of the population of this geographic wonderland. The Amazon River basin teems with lifeanimal and plant alike. It's a rainforest that is home to an estimated 390 billion individual trees 2.5 million species of insects and hundreds of amazing creatures and plants that can either cure diseases or like the poison dart frog kill with a single touch. Where Is the Amazon? reveals the amazing scale of a single rainforest that we are still trying to understand today and that in many ways supports our existence on this planet.
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Brand: Grosset & Dunlap
Publisher Date: 05/24/2016
Author: Sarah Fabiny
Dimensions: 7.60 x 5.30
UPC: 9780448488264
Ages: 8-12
Pages: 112
