Amazon

Synopsis: In this series, anthropologist and adventurer Bruce Parry journeys the length and breadth of the largest river in the world - the Amazon. Tracing the giant river from its origins high in the Andes to its end, where it meets the sea on Brazil’s Atlantic coast, Parry stays with the many and varied tribes who are desperately trying to maintain their way of life in a rapidly disappearing landscape. Parry also finds out what it’s like for those who make their living by working in the Amazon, the ranchers, loggers, scientists, and environmentalists who live in this spectacular, yet threatened environment.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2008
Year of production: 2008
Notes: Broadcast in 5 weekly parts on BBC2 beginning 15/9/2008
Subjects: Anthropology; Development studies; Geography
Keywords: Amazon river; anthropology; economic geography; social geography

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