Jacques Cousteau’s Amazon Journey

Offers an account of his exploration of the amazon, tracing the river from its mouth to its source, detailing the ecology, wildlife and etc.
The largest, widest, and oldest river in the world, South america’s mighty Amazon provides the richest habitat for life anywhere on earth. Here are frogs tinier than a fingernail, deadly piranha fish, a pink freshwater dolphin, and a battery of insects and orchids almost too colorful to believe.
Here, too, are tribal men and women less than a decade from the stone age and yet on the brink of tomorrow.
Renowned oceanographer Jacques Yves Cousteau, his son Jean Michel, and a Cousteau Society team of divers, scientists, photographers, and support personnel recently completed an unprecedented 18-month long investigation of the great waterway navigating upstream some 2,300 miles and tracing the river from its mouth in the atlantic to its source 18,000 feet high in the andes mountains of peru. It is Cousteau’s most ambifious and comprehensive expedition to date: