Tree Of Rivers

Blogs sponsored by Piotr Chmielinski  Canoandes.org I borrowed my title from John Hemming’s wonderful, definitive book Tree of Rivers. If you look at the diagram of the Amazon Basin below, it is not difficult to distinguish his “tree” of rivers that appears to grow west from the Atlantic. The tree trunk is the main Amazon River, and the … Read more »



Heart Of The Inca Universe

Blogs sponsored by Piotr Chmielinski Canoandes.org Cusco was the physical, political, and spiritual center of the Inka universe. Every aspect of the city reflected its cosmic significance. The Quechua word “Qosqo”, comes from an indigenous word meaning “navel of the world” or “center of the universe”. The historic city, with its mind-boggling Inca engineering, sits 3400m above … Read more »