Title : Amazonia - Patrick Deville - book
Summary :
With In Amazonia, Patrick Deville offers a sumptuous literary carnival based on a voyage up the Amazon and across the Latin American subcontinent, starting from Belém on the Atlantic and ending in Santa Elena on the Pacific, having crossed the Andes mountain range. We discover Santarém, the Rio Negro, Manaus, Iquitos, Guayaquil, and even end up in the Galapagos, a plausible haven of peace in a world that has once again gone mad and is pushing the fires of its extinction.
The novel goes back to the first European intrusions, in the quest for gold and riches, through a still virgin geography, full of legends and surprises. Later, explorers will draw up maps, bringing some order to the labyrinth of rivers and tributaries. Industrialists will come to exploit the rubber, making fortunes and bankruptcy, the world moves fast. In this lush landscape that leads to excess, some forge a destiny for themselves: Aguirre, Fitzgerald who became Fitzcarrald, Darwin, Humboldt, Bolívar.
This journey undertaken by a father with his twenty-nine-year-old son through the history and territory of the Amazon is also an opportunity to experience climate change and its catastrophic consequences.
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EAN : 9782021247503
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