Into the Heart; A sweeping portrait of the Amazon River and its strikingly different inhabitants. The Washington Post | August 17, 2008 | . This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

TREE OF RIVERS

The Story

of the Amazon

By John Hemming Thames & Hudson 368pp. $39.95 In "Atlas," a book about travel, Jorge Luis Borges wrote that we should not assume all discoveries and explorations to be things of the past. No place can justify this assertion more literally than the Amazon basin. Dominated by the longest river in the world, its geography extends over a surface the size of Europe, much of it inaccessible. The river is the center of a web of life --

plants, insects, fish, reptiles, birds, mammals -- dauntingly richer than any other region's on Earth. Its rainforests ...

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