Amazon: From the Floodplains to the Clouds is photographer Alex Webb's compelling documentation of a voyage through the worlds of those who live along this immense waterway. The photographs reproduce a trip from the enormous Amazon delta in Brazil through Colombia to the icy ponds and streams by the slopes of Mount Mismi in Peru - the source of the river. Indigenous traditions and European influences intermingle and thrive throughout these countries. The lowlands are a diverse region of backwater ports and river villages ...
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Amazon: From the Floodplains to the Clouds is photographer Alex Webb's compelling documentation of a voyage through the worlds of those who live along this immense waterway. The photographs reproduce a trip from the enormous Amazon delta in Brazil through Colombia to the icy ponds and streams by the slopes of Mount Mismi in Peru - the source of the river. Indigenous traditions and European influences intermingle and thrive throughout these countries. The lowlands are a diverse region of backwater ports and river villages overgrown into ramshackle towns and cities, as well as places of fantastic festivals, highlighted by costumes and parades. The Peruvian highlands are a world of harsh rock, bleak and bitter weather, and ongoing political strife.
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Add this copy of Amazon: From the Floodplains to the Clouds to cart. $350.00, like new condition, Sold by b&w books, ships from Memphis, TN, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Monacelli Press.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Like new in mylar covered dustjacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 144 p. Audience: General/trade. Color photographs of the Amazon region and its people by a Magnum photographer in an excellent oversized hardcover edition.
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