Through eighteen grueling expeditions, the discovery of 30 new sites, and the treacherous trek across the Peruvian rainforests, follow daring explorer Thierry Jamin on his quest to find Paititi: The Lost City of Gold. Exploring ancient Amazonian pyramids and deciphering map-like petroglyphs, the search is on for the city and the legendary Incan treasure that's been hidden from the world for 500 years.

After befriending a clever tortoise while lost in the Brazilian rainforest, a young Kulina girl helps it keep from becoming her father's dinner.

All the birds enjoy the song-like flute music of Jabuti, the tortoise, except Vulture who, jealous because he cannot sing, tricks Jabuti into riding his back toward a festival planned by the King of Heaven.

Presents a collection of stories from nations and cultures across our two continents, the Sea-Ringed World, as the Aztecs called it, from the edge of Argentina all the way up to Alaska.

Presents facts about the Mayan, Incan, and Aztec civilizations, covering daily life, religion, art and technology, and where they are now.

"Explora las maravillas de la Amazonía con Zonia, una niña asháninka, cuyas alegres aventuras en la selva se interrumpen un día por un misterioso y desconcertante descubrimiento." --contraportada. Enjoying days spent with animal friends near her home in the Amazon, young Zonia wonders what to do on a day when the rainforest calls out to her for help. Lush illustrations are complemented by back matter about the Ashaninka community.

He has taken his camera to parts of the world no other director would dare go, and told stories in ways no one had ever considered. These sixteen masterpieces, which blur the line between 'fiction' and 'documentary,' illustrate why Werner Hertzog is the most daring, visionary, and dangerous filmmaker of our lifetime. The director that both Milos Forman and Francois Truffaut have called 'the greatest filmmaker alive today.'

Three years in the making, Crude tells the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet: the infamous $27 billion "Amazon Chernobyl" lawsuit pitting 30,000 rainforest dwellers in Ecuador against the U.S. oil giant Chevron. Winner of 19 international awards, Crude takes you inside a riveting, high stakes drama steeped in global politics, the environmental movement, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, multinational...

Este libro incluye las más bellas historias de tres deslumbrantes pueblos de nuestra América: los Incas, Mayas y Aztecas, que contaron el origen del mundo en que vivían y lo hacían en forma de cuento, para que estas historias pudieran ser narradas de padres a hijos, de abuelos a nietos, de gereración en generación. Estas leyendas se mantienen en la voz y en las historias que todavía hoy deslumbran a los niños. Relatadas de manera sencilla,...

Una inspiradora historia real sobre cómo una activista trabajó en la Amazonía con otras comunidades indígenas para proteger y preservar sus tierras y selvas sagradas. "One activist's story shows how Indigenous communities can fight to protect their sacred lands-and win"--