<p>This new book by Carlos Araujo Carujo, The Brazilian Amazon, subtitled A Glorious Past, a Rich Present, and an Uncertain Future of the renowned World Heritage Site, takes the reader on a journey through the history of the Amazon, from prehistory to the present day, beginning with the pre-Columbian occupation. After millennia of adaptation and development, the transformations of the colonial and imperial Amazon, and the Pombaline Directorate, a...