Where is the Amazon?

Without risking their lives or limbs, readers can explore the wonders and beauty of the Amazon in this book, "Where Is...?" Humans have inhabited the banks of the Amazon River since 13,000 BC, yet they constitute only a tiny percentage of the population of this remarkable geography. The Amazon River basin teems with life—both animal and plant. It is a rainforest that is home to an estimated 390 billion trees, 2.5 million insect species, and hundreds of amazing creatures and plants that can either cure disease or, like the poison dart frog, kill with a single touch. "Where Is the Amazon?" reveals the astonishing scale of a single rainforest that we are still trying to understand today, and which, in many ways, supports our very existence on this planet.