Books with title The Amazonian Indians

Who are the Indians of the Amazonian rainforest?Do they grow their own food? Do they live in houses?br>Are the rainforests of the Amazon in danger?br>What is happening to the Amazonian Indians today?This new series takes an exciting look at history and culture through everyday lives of people from a great civilization. Using color photographs and detailed illustrations of cultural objects, each book helps young people ask questions and draw their own conclusions from the evidence.Anna Lewington, the author, has studied Latin American Anthropology and carried out research work in the Amazon and is a consultant to the world Wide fund for nature.

Living in the Amazonian rainforest with the high temperatures, constant humidity, and plenty of dangerous insects and predators isnt easy. The tribes of Amazonian Indians not only survive these conditions, they have thrived and continue to do so. Readers will be inspired by the innovative techniques for living off the land that these amazing individuals have created in order to survive. Teach readers about a people who have lived very harmoniously as a part of nature, using resources to their fullest potential.

Living in the Amazonian rainforest with the high temperatures, constant humidity, and plenty of dangerous insects and predators isnt easy. The tribes of Amazonian Indians not only survive these conditions, they have thrived and continue to do so. Readers will be inspired by the innovative techniques for living off the land that these amazing individuals have created in order to survive. Teach readers about a people who have lived very harmoniously as a part of nature, using resources to their fullest potential.

Whether my bones are to rest in this great valley, or west of the Cordilleras, or the Rocky Mountains, I know not. I shall often think of the silver Iosco, the farther I go from it. To use a native metaphor, My foot is on the path, and the word, is onward! "The spider taketh hold with her hands," Solomon says, "and is in king's palaces." Truly, a man should accomplish, by diligence, as much as a spider.Pittsburgh was, even then, a busy manufacturing town, filled with working machinery, steam engines, hammers, furnaces, and coal smoke. I visited Mr. O'Hara, and several other leading manufacturers. They made glass, bar iron, nails, coarse pottery, castings, and many other articles, which filled its shops and warehouses, and gave it a city-like appearance. Every chimney and pipe, perpendicular or lateral, puffed out sooty coal smoke, and it required some dexterity to keep a clean collar half a day. I met ladies who bore this impress of the city, on their morning toilet. I took lodgings at Mrs.