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 »






The Green Ocean

Blogs sponsored by Piotr Chmielinski Canoandes.org   Staying healthy on a tropical jungle expedition is vital. I’ve had all the inoculations (yellow fever, typhoid, rabies etc), but there are still diseases lurking for which there is no prevention other than awareness and luck –  e.g. malaria, dengue, leishmaniasis, and more. Over the course of this expedition … Read more »