Pearce : Deep Jungle : Journey to the Heart of the Rainforest

| 2006 | | Kart, F:12,7x19,7 cm, 322 S, 10 Farbfotos. | WG: Buch | | From the world’s largest rainforest in the Amazon to the leech-infested wilds of Sumatra, Fred Pearce journeys high into the canopy - home to two-thirds of all creatures on our planet – and encounters flying frogs, huge spiders, a flower that smells of decaying flesh, and all manner of other fantastic flora and fauna. Travelling with the twenty-first century’s new breed of bounty-hunters – scientists using cutting-edge technology to explore a truly alien world - Pearce offers us a new perspective on the rainforest, so often described as the ‘heart and lungs of our planet’. From the great architects of Angkor Wat to the ancient Mayans, past civilizations have ‘conquered’ jungles yet none have survived to tell the tale. Are we on the verge of destroying our planet’s most precious resource, or will nature reclaim its own? Is the jungle a green heaven or hell? | [E] | Restexemplar, € 7,95, anstatt € 15,90, verlagsneu. |