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...AMAZONIA by Loren McIntyre (Sierra Club Books; $40). This large-format portfolio captures the riches of the vast Amazon Basin, from the white-water region of the western Andes to the black waters of the Rio Negro system, on to the blue of the south, and finally to the brown Amazon mainstream. A dazzling record of an ecological treasure that is fast being destroyed...
...white-water raft, the temperature and humidity rose. Cloud-forest plants and animals began to give way to parrots, fasciated tiger herons -- a hunter of large fish and snakes that looks like it is wearing a herringbone overcoat -- and other lowland creatures. We settled for the night at Amazonia Lodge, a former tea plantation across from the tiny river port of Atalaya. The owner, Santiago Yabar, tells us that he first visited the plantation as a tax collector in the 1970s, then later bought it and transformed its run-down buildings into an extremely agreeable...
Experts have called Amazonia the best bird-watching lodge in the world because it sits at the juncture of a zone where birds from upland peaks mingle with lowland species. For many years the Manu held the record for sightings of different species in a single day: 331. With no effort whatsoever, we spotted more than 100 species in the course of five days. A short canoe ride from the Manu Lodge, visitors can see the nesting sites of hoatzins, perhaps the world's strangest birds. The floppy, pheasant-sized avians have three stomachs, like cows; the young defend themselves...
Saul is vividly recollected from the old days: Jewish, with springy red hair and a purplish birthmark covering the right half of his face. He is distinguished also by his growing interest in the tribes of Amazonia and their right to survive. The narrator recalls provoking his friend on this subject: "Should 16 million Peruvians renounce the natural resources of three- quarters of their national territory so that 70 or 80 thousand Indians could quietly go on shooting at each other with bows and arrows, shrinking heads and worshipping boa constrictors?" Saul's response is skimpy on particulars but firm...
...populating its catalog with real people, complete with wrinkles and middle-age spread. Often the models are employees or readers who have sent in photos of themselves along with suggestions for the catalog. In one recent issue, Roxanne Clouse and her teenage daughter Franny, who are customers from Amazonia, Mo., sported bathing suits. Says one appreciative customer: "I get tired of catalogs full of models who wear a size...