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Amazon Expeditions : My Quest for the Ice-Age Equator by Gerald K. LeTendre is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Amazon Expeditions : My Quest for the Ice-Age Equator about?
In this vivid memoir of a life in science, ecologist Paul Colinvaux takes his readers from the Alaskan tundra to steamy Amazon jungles, from the Galapagos Islands (before tourists had arrived) to the high Andes and the Darien Gap in Panama. He recounts an adventurous tale of exploration in the days before GPS and satellite mapping, and a tale no less exhilarating of his battle to disprove a hypothesis endorsed by most of the scientific community.Colinvaux’s grand endeavor, begun in the 1960s, wa
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Gerald K. LeTendre
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300150094
- Category
- nonfiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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