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Friday, March 30, 2012

Pororoka - The Great Destructive Noise (Tupi language)

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The Belo Monte dam - Can it be stopped?

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Zé Cláudio Ribeiro from the Amazon| He believes that killing trees is murder

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Saturday, March 24, 2012

For the next 7 generations


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Syllabus (updated on March 4, 2013)


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Key resources

  • Amazon Watch
  • Belo Monte
  • Derek Rasmussen's "The priced versus the priceless"
  • Interactive map
  • WWF on Amazonia

Secondary resources

  • A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Friar Bartolomé de las Casas
  • A First Metabiography of Alexander von Humboldt
  • Explorers Pinpoint Source of the Amazon – National Geographic’s expedition led by Pietowski
  • Humbolt - BBC radio
  • National Geographics' Loren McIntyre's expedition in 1971
  • Perils and Captivity: Voyage Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the 1770.
  • Viceroys of Peru

Bibliography

  • Hemming, John. The conquest of the Incas. London: Macmillan, 1993. ISBN 0-333-10683-0
  • MacQuarrie, Kim. The Last Days of The Incas. Piatkus Books, 2008. ISBN 978-0749929930
  • Prescott, William H. The Discovery and Conquest of Peru.
  • Rostworowski, Maria. History of the Inca Realm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0521637596

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