Maraca - Rainforest Island

Maraca is an uninhabited and largely unexplored tropical island in Brazil, at the heart of South America. In this stunningly illustrated book, John Hemming, author of several highly praised books on the exploration and history of Amazonia, and James Ratter, Britain's leading tropical botanist, describe with clarity of scholarship and wonderful evocation of place one of the largest multidisciplinary research projects ever organized in Amazonia: the Maraca Rainforest Project. Maraca combines personal anecdotes of the researchers inspiring and often dangerous experiences in the area with fascinating documentation of every aspect of the island's natural environment: its exotic vegetation, animals, insects, habitats and history.