Where Is the Amazon? [Paperback]

Without risking life or limb, readers can explore the wonders and beauty of the Amazon in thisWhere Is...?title.

Human beings have inhabited the banks of the Amazon River since 13,000 BC and yet they make up just a small percentage of the population of this geographic wonderland. The Amazon River basin teems with life—animal and plant alike. It's a rainforest that is home to an estimated 390 billion individual trees, 2.5 million species of insects, and hundreds of amazing creatures and plants that can either cure diseases, or, like the poison dart frog, kill with a single touch.Where Is the Amazon?reveals the amazing scale of a single rainforest that we are still trying to understand today and that, in many ways, supports our existence on this planet.Sarah Fabiny is the Editor-in-Chief of series and licensed books at Grosset & Dunlap. She has written several Who Was...? titles, including Beatrix Potter, Frida Kahlo, and Rachel Carson. She lives in New York.Where Is the Amazon?
 
On August 26, 1542, Francisco de Orellana, a Spanish explorer, and his crew finally arrived at the Atlantic Ocean. They had been sailing down a mighty river in South America. The journey had lasted more than two hundred days. The river and the surrounding landscape were like nothing they had ever come across. The river was so wide that they could not see across it in places. And the creatures swinging in the trees, splashing in the water, and flying through the sky were not like the creatures in Spain.
 
When Orellana and his men arrived back in Spain, Orellana told stories about their incredible journey to anyone who would listen. And it was no wonder why—the river that Orellana and his men had traveled down was the Amazon. And the surrounding landscape was the Amazon rain forest.
 
The Amazon is truly one of the natural wonders of the planet. Although not the longest river in the world, ilC¶