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| Author: Helmut Sick
Publisher: Eriksson-Taplinger Co
Category: Book
Buy Used: $6.89
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2406992
Pages: 240
ASIN: B0007DWCJM
Publication Date: 1960
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Condition: Publisher: Eriksson-Taplinger Company, IncDate of Publication: 1960Binding: Hard CoverCondition: GoodDescription: Ex-Library Ex-library copy with the usual markings. Edges are worn and rubbed. 240 pages.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Too bad December 19, 2007
This book came out an ornithologists trip throughly largely unexplored NW brazil in the 1940's. The purpose of the mission was to establish an air base and "modernize" the interior of Brazil. Luckily for us Helmut sick went along for the trek.
Unfortunately, it's too bad someone so skilled in ornithology isn't a little more skilled with people. While his exuberance concerning birds shows plainly, he has apparently never been schooled in anthropology. He only vaguely seems aware of the damage he's doing to the natives way of life by trading tools with them and giving them more modern implements. I understand the events in this book occurred in the 1940's but still.
Great work on birds. Bad work on people.
 Discover Central Brazil August 23, 2006
Helmut Sick was one of Brazil's foremost ornithologists and his book on Brazilian birds is still the main reference. This book is a personal account of an expedition in the 40s from Aragarcas (eastern Goias) to the Tapajos river and Manaus. This was then virgin territory and it is a fascinating read. Today part of the Cerrado and Amazon have been disappeared with no thanks to large-scale agriculture. Fortunately, a large part of the Amazon is still there and you can still feel an explorer there.
For those who love nature and want to get a glimpse of situation of the indians and the challenges of expeditions in those days, a great read.
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