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Where the Andes meet the Amazon |
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About the Book |
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"Where the Andes Meet the Amazon" is a lavishly-illustrated, coffee-table style
book that portrays some of the biological, ethnographic, and historical
diversity of one of the largest protected rainforest areas in the world: the
fabulously rich wilderness areas of Bahuaja-Sonene and Madidi National Parks.
This handsome, 336-page book is illustrated with 336 color photographs from the
award-winning photographer, André Bärtschi, and is written by the multiple-Emmy
winning writer and filmmaker, Kim MacQuarrie. Both the author and photographer
have spent years roaming the Andes and the Amazon; between them, they have
collaborated on a simply stunning book.
When Peru and Bolivia joined forces to create these massive, co-joined parks in
the mid 1990's, they showed the world a rare, bi-national feat: For one of the
first times in history two countries had established reserves adjacent to
one-another, thus doubling the conservation impact in an area already
considered one of the most biologically diverse in the world-the eastern slope
of the Andes. Located only a half-hour plane flight from Cuzco or La Paz, the
parks spread from snow-capped Andean peaks all the way down through the cloud
forest to the lowland Amazon. Between them, they protect some 3.5 million
hectares (8.6 million acres), an area roughly the size of Switzerland.
Inca Indians once roamed here, climbing down the eastern Andes to trade with
Amazonian tribes below; their ruins still lie scattered where they left them.
Conquistadors came, hacking their way through jungles while exploring for lost
cities of gold. Victorian rubber barons were next, piling up fabulous riches
extracted by a virtual network of slaves. Even Nazi war criminals took refuge
here, hunting for the fabled fever-bark trees, the search for which drove at
least one scientist mad.
In addition to their unique location and history, the two parks contain a
treasure trove of biology: high Andean plains dotted with blue lakes, pink
flamingos and delicate vicunas, rare spectacled bears, orchid-infested cloud
forests, wide pampas roamed by giant anteaters and maned wolves, more than
1,000 species of multi-colored birds, 10 species of monkeys, 6-meter (20-foot)
caimans, prowling jaguars, nearly 2-meter (6-foot) giant otters, fish filled
oxbow lakes, and exciting, rapid-studded rivers. In short, these two co-joined
parks protect one of the richest, most biologically diverse areas on Earth.
"Where the Andes Meet the Amazon: Peru and Bolivia's Bahuaja-Sonene and Madidi
National Parks" is an excellent addition to the library of anyone interested in
the fauna, flora, natives, or history of one of the richest areas of the Amazon
Basin-where the greatest jungle in the world and one of the world's largest
mountain chains dramatically meet.
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