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Or get you excited about a trip you already have planned. Or maybe just inspire you to visit in the future. I hope these books let you take a little vacation at home and make you feel like you’re actually there. Most of these are non-fiction books about the Amazon or memoirs, but there are a couple of novels set in the Amazon too. I especially love reading about the Amazon and watching everything I can about it, kind of like Mount Everest and the Himalayas.Īnd I can’t wait to visit someday, but right now that can’t happen, so, here we are with the best books about the Amazon that are going to make it feel like I’m there. I get a small commission if you purchase through them at no extra cost to you. Off the Map: A Journey Through the Amazonian Wild.River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana’s Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon.The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman’s Fight to Save the World’s Most Beautiful Bird.The River Sea: The Amazon in History, Myth, and Legend.Walking the Jungle: An Adventurer’s Guide To The Amazon.Tree of Rivers Rivers: The Story of the Amazon.Jungle Stories: The Fight For The Amazon.One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rainforest.Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes – The Yanomamo and the Anthropologists.The Land of Ghosts: The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far West Amazonia.Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicine in the Rain Forest.Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle.The Lost Amazon: The Pioneering Expeditions of Richard Evans Schultes.In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon.Pantanal: South America’s Wetland Jewel.The Girl with No Name: The Incredible Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys.Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival in the Amazon.The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes.


Mother of God: An Eextraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon.Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon’s Madre de Dios.Amazon Hitchhiker: A Woman’s Adventure from Canada to Brazil.Witch Doctor’s Apprentice: Hunting for Medicinal Plants in the Amazon.
