(Paperback)

A sweeping chronicle of the brave and hardy souls, ranging from the Spanish seafarer Vicente Pinzon, who discovered the Amazon River, to contemporary heroes and heroines, like Sister Dorothy Stang and Chico Mendes, whose efforts to save the rain forest cost them their lives.

(Hardback)

Since its discovery by Europeans in 1500, explorers, visionaries, soldiers of fortune, men of God, scientists, and slavers have been drawn to the legendary Amazon. "The River Sea" is a sweeping chronicle of those brave and hardy souls whose efforts to save the rain forest cost them their lives.