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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Nature gives us everything for free," says a Yanomami chief - "all that nature asks in return is that we protect it." In Children of the Land, Brazilian Indian leaders discuss their careful and sustainable use of the land. The forest provides indigenous people with food, medicine and supplies, and they know that they have to preserve these for future generations. This is reflected in their sustainable lifestyle; the Ashaninka calendar, for example,...
3) The Incas
Author
Publisher
New Discovery Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Surveys the civilization, history, and culture of the Incas, including studies of their government, religion, family life, agriculture, and architecture.
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
La historia se desarrolla en una remota villa de la amazonia suramericana donde el bambú está presente en todo, el jefe de la comunidad, Huascar era un maestro ya anciano que luego de recorrer el mundo vivía en medio de la selva porque así lo había decidido. Tenía tres hijos, dos varones y una niña de apenas 14 años. Huascar les deja un legado como recuerdo en el que había estado trabajando en su taller por años en secreto y nadie lo ha...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
Español
Description
When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.
9) Evil star
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Having locked the Raven's gate, fourteen-year-old Matt travels to Peru where he meets the second of the five gatekeepers and works with him to try to stop the opening of a second gate somehow related to the Nazca Lines.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to coast. Like all humans, these Native Americans sought to understand their place in the universe, the nature of their relationship with the divine, and the origin of the world into which their ancestors had emerged. The answers lay in their sacred stories. Author María García Esperón, illustrator Amanda Mijangos, and translator...
Publisher
SlingShot Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The Jules Verne expedition sails up the Amazon aboard the famous 19th Century French tall ship "Belem." The Jules Verne mission: to retrace the famous 12-year odyssey of a father for his son. To find the lost civilization of the Maracas Indians, & come the closest in 500 years to the legendary Amazon women warriors.
17) Yanomami
Author
Publisher
Weigl Publishers
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
18) An Inca farmer
Author
Publisher
Rourke Enterprises
Pub. Date
1988, c1986
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of a farmer in the Incan Empire in the days before the arrival of the Spaniards.
Author
Series
Children of the lamp volume 5
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Djinn twins John and Philippa, along with their Uncle Nimrod, travel to the Amazon jungle to try to recover a stolen collection of rare Incan artifacts.
Author
Publisher
Thomson Gale
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
This reference library provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the regions of the American continents in which two of the world's first civilizations developed: Mesoamerica (the name for the lands in which ancient civilizations arose in Central America and Mexico) and the Andes Mountains region of South America (in present-day Peru and parts of Bolivia, northern Argentina, and Ecuador).
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