A Land of Ghosts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Land of Ghosts write by David G. Campbell. This book was released on 2014-06-10. A Land of Ghosts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The biologist and award-winning author journeys deep inside the Amazon rainforest in this eloquent and insightful look at one of earth’s last wild places. For thirty years, biologist David G. Campbell has been exploring the lush wilderness, of the western Amazon, which contains more species than ever existed anywhere on our planet. In A Land of Ghosts, Campbell takes readers on his latest venture. In Cruzeiro do Sul, 2,800 miles from the mouth of the Amazon, Campbell collects three old friends: Arito, a caiman hunter turned paleontologist; Tarzan, a street urchin brought up in a bordello; and Pimentel, a master canoe pilot. Heading further into the rainforest, they survey every living woody plant they can find. The land is so rich that an area of less than fifty acres contains three times as many tree species as all of North America. Campbell knows the trees individually, and he knows the wildlife and the people as well: the recently arrived colonists with their failing farms; the Caboclos, masters of hunting, fishing, and survival; and the refugee Native Americans. These people live in a land whose original inhabitants were wiped out by centuries of disease, slavery, and genocide, taking their traditions and languages with them: a land of ghosts.
A Land of Ghosts
A Land of Ghosts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Land of Ghosts write by David G. Campbell. This book was released on 2005. A Land of Ghosts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher Description
A Demon-Haunted Land
A Demon-Haunted Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Demon-Haunted Land write by Monica Black. This book was released on 2020-11-17. A Demon-Haunted Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A Demon-Haunted Land is absorbing, gripping, and utterly fascinating... Beautifully written, without even a hint of jargon or pretension, it casts a significant and unexpected new light on the early phase of the Federal Republic of Germany’s history. Black’s analysis of the copious, largely unknown archival sources on which the book is based is unfailingly subtle and intelligent.” —Richard J. Evans, The New Republic In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events swept through war-torn Germany. A messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Most strikingly, scores of people accused their neighbors of witchcraft, and found themselves in turn hauled into court on charges of defamation, assault, and even murder. What linked these events, in the wake of an annihilationist war and the Holocaust, was a widespread preoccupation with evil. While many histories emphasize Germany’s rapid transition from genocidal dictatorship to liberal democracy, A Demon-Haunted Land places in full view the toxic mistrust, profound bitterness, and spiritual malaise that unfolded alongside the economic miracle. Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials, acclaimed historian Monica Black argues that the surge of supernatural obsessions stemmed from the unspoken guilt and shame of a nation remarkably silent about what was euphemistically called “the most recent past.” This shadow history irrevocably changes our view of postwar Germany, revealing the country’s fraught emotional life, deep moral disquiet, and the cost of trying to bury a horrific legacy.
A Land of Ghosts
A Land of Ghosts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Land of Ghosts write by David G. Campbell. This book was released on 2007. A Land of Ghosts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With great narrative, Campbell takes readers with him as he travels 1,200 miles up the Amazon, turns left up the Rio Jurua, and continues for another 28 days to the town of Cruzeiro do Sul where he collects three friends and continues further into the rainforest.
Land Of Ghosts
Land Of Ghosts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Land Of Ghosts write by E.V. Seymour. This book was released on 2014-08-01. Land Of Ghosts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Outnumbered. Outgunned. And running out of time. Meet Paul Tallis – a spy for the 21st Century Fearing an undercover agent working in Chechnya has gone rogue, MI6 look to off-thspook Paul Tallis for help. Tallis is ready for the challenge – then he learns the missing operative is his old school friend, Graham Darke. With intelligence confirming a threat to assassinate the Russian prime minister, Tallis must infiltrate a rebel movement and reach Darke before Anglo-Russian relations are permanently destroyed. But confronted with the reality of the Chechen struggle, Tallis faces an impossible moral choice: bring in Darke and prevent an international crisis, or protect a man fighting for the forgotten innocents. For fans of ROBERT LUDLUM, GERALD SEYMOUR and JOHN LE CARRÉ, this is a must read.
