Books with author Constantine Issighos

My travel in the indigenous villages of the Upper Amazon of Peru was an amazing experience. My time spend with indigenous families was thrilling and educational. The women showed me their ceremonies; how they wove baskets and how they caught fish by hand. Women play an important social and economic role in the indigenous communities of the Amazonian rainforest. They maintain their families' health care and food security. This book's real life color illustrations shows their resilience and accomplishments in spite of the pressures from modern way of life. Women play a unique role in Amazonian tribal society. The color photos in this fascinating book follow women from childhood to advance years, and demonstrates the role they play in bonding the Amazonian Sisterhood. This adventurous and educational book is recommended for the whole family--particular mothers and their daughters--school curriculum, community libraries and collectors of the Amazon Exploration Series.

Along the riverbanks, the leafy forest canopy forms a giant open-air aviary. Black-collared hawks eye me silently as they scan the river for prey. Elegant coicoi herons glide by on their way to their rookery. A hoatzin bird, whose topknot resembles a Mohawk haircut, sends out an eerie call. Turquoise, bright yellow and green parrots engage in a fierce aerial battle over a seed. High in the leafy canopy, bushy-tailed saki-monkeys perform acrobatics in the tree tops, while tiny squirrel monkeys anxiously skitter along the tree trunks. As the morning sun clears the Amazon tree line, the curtain rises on one of the world's most dazzling wildlife spectacles. In the evening, another beautiful sunset touches the horizontal landscape, and the heavenly colours of the sunset allow a sense of oneness and tranquility. This books is recommended for the whole family, elementary and middle schools, community libraries, naturalists and collectors of the Amazon Exploration Series.