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People of the Rainforest: The Villas Boas Brothers, Explorers and Humanitarians of the Amazon - Hardcover
In 1945, three young brothers joined and eventually led Brazil's first government-sponsored expedition into its Amazonian rainforests. After more expeditions into unknown terrain, they became South America's most famous explorers, spending the rest of their lives with the resilient tribal communities they found there.
People of the Rainforest recounts the Villas Boas brothers' four thrilling and dangerous 'first contacts' with isolated indigenous people, and their lifelong mission to learn about their societies and, above all, help them adapt to modern Brazil without losing their cultural heritage, identity and pride.
Author and explorer John Hemming vividly traces the unique adventures of these extraordinary brothers, who used their fame to change attitudes to native peoples and to help protect the world's surviving tropical rainforests, under threat again today.
People of the Rainforest recounts the Villas Boas brothers' four thrilling and dangerous 'first contacts' with isolated indigenous people, and their lifelong mission to learn about their societies and, above all, help them adapt to modern Brazil without losing their cultural heritage, identity and pride.
Author and explorer John Hemming vividly traces the unique adventures of these extraordinary brothers, who used their fame to change attitudes to native peoples and to help protect the world's surviving tropical rainforests, under threat again today.
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John Hemming is a former director of the Royal Geographical Society and the author of many books, including The Conquest of the Incas. He is a renowned explorer of Amazonia and the leading authority on the history of Brazil's indigenous peoples.
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"Hemming presents his hallmark combination of forensic research, vivid prose and gripping narrative to tell the compelling story of three brothers' explorations in the Amazon rainforests. [. . . ] As Brazil's new President ramps up the rhetoric that is a prelude to the further plunders the lands of the rainforests Indians, historic counterpoint is provided by a writer who is not only a fellow explorer, but also an exceptional scholar.'"--Tony Juniper, CBE, environmentalist and author of Rainforest - Dispatches From Earth's Most Vital Frontlines
"The journeys of the Villas Boas brothers make up one of the great stories of twentieth-century exploration, and John Hemming tells it with his customary assurance and authority. [. . . ] Uplifting and heartbreaking, it's an absorbing account of three men who committed their lives to understanding one of the world's most impenetrable environments."--Sir Michael Palin
"Any book by John Hemming is cause for celebration, but this is the one he was destined to write. Himself a renowned Amazonian explorer and crusader for the rights of indigenous peoples, he turns his literary lens on the legendary Villas Boas brothers, whose singular devotion to justice resulted in vast expanses of the Brazilian Amazon being set aside as the legitimate and undeniable homelands of scores of tribal nations."--Wade Davis, Amazonian botanist and National Geographic Explorer in Residence, and author of Into the Silence, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize
John Hemming is a former director of the Royal Geographical Society and the author of many books, including The Conquest of the Incas. He is a renowned explorer of Amazonia and the leading authority on the history of Brazil's indigenous peoples.
"Hemming presents his hallmark combination of forensic research, vivid prose and gripping narrative to tell the compelling story of three brothers' explorations in the Amazon rainforests. [. . . ] As Brazil's new President ramps up the rhetoric that is a prelude to the further plunders the lands of the rainforests Indians, historic counterpoint is provided by a writer who is not only a fellow explorer, but also an exceptional scholar.'"--Tony Juniper, CBE, environmentalist and author of Rainforest - Dispatches From Earth's Most Vital Frontlines
"The journeys of the Villas Boas brothers make up one of the great stories of twentieth-century exploration, and John Hemming tells it with his customary assurance and authority. [. . . ] Uplifting and heartbreaking, it's an absorbing account of three men who committed their lives to understanding one of the world's most impenetrable environments."--Sir Michael Palin
"Any book by John Hemming is cause for celebration, but this is the one he was destined to write. Himself a renowned Amazonian explorer and crusader for the rights of indigenous peoples, he turns his literary lens on the legendary Villas Boas brothers, whose singular devotion to justice resulted in vast expanses of the Brazilian Amazon being set aside as the legitimate and undeniable homelands of scores of tribal nations."--Wade Davis, Amazonian botanist and National Geographic Explorer in Residence, and author of Into the Silence, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize
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