Unknown Amazon edited by Colin McEwan, Cristiana Barreto and Eduardo
Neves, The British Museum Press, £17.99, ISBN 071412558X
FEW places on Earth excite the Western imagination like the Amazon
rainforest. Since the 16th century, Europeans have been impressed by its
vastness and rich diversity of fauna, flora and indigenous peoples. But all too
often, Europeans forget that they share these feelings of awe with the people
who live there.
This misconception is thoroughly dispelled by Colin McEwan, Cristiana Barreto
and Eduardo Neves in Unknown Amazon, which accompanies the British
Museum exhibition of the same name. Beautifully illustrated, its expert essays…
