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The unconquered in search of the Amazon's last uncontacted tribes

Summary: Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding from the outside world, they are the unconquered, the last survivors of an ancient culture that predates the arrival of Columbus. Journalist Scott Wallace chronicles an expedition into the Amazon's uncharted depths, discovering the rainforest's secrets while moving ever closer to a possible encounter with one such tribe of seldom-glimpsed warriors known to repulse all intruders with showers of deadly arrows. On assignment for National Geographic, Wallace joins Brazilian explorer Sydney Possuelo at the head of a 34-man team that ventures deep into the unknown in search of the tribe. Possuelo's mission is to protect the Arrow People, but the information he needs in order to do so can only be gleaned by entering a world of permanent twilight beneath the forest canopy.--From publisher description.

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  • ISBN: 9780307462985 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0307462986 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
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    1 online resource (xiv, 494 p., [16] p. of plates) : col. ill., map.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, c2011.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-483) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Pt. 1. Into the Amazon -- pt. 2. In the land of the Arrow People -- pt. 3. The imperative to survive.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Social life and customs
Wallace, Scott -- Travel -- Amazon River Region
Amazon River Region -- Description and travel
Genre: Electronic books.

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