Along the River that Flows Uphill

Along the River that Flows Uphill: From the Orinoco to the Amazon (Armchair Traveller) [Hardcover]
Author:Richard Starks
Author:Murcutt Miriam
Catalog:Armchair Travel Book

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Along The River that Flows Uphill weaves the story of an Amazon journey with science, math and reason to explore the risks that are inherent in adventure travel.

In 2005, Geographical - the official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society in London - commissioned authors Richard Starks and Miriam Murcutt to write an article about a strange river in Venezuela called the Casiquiare. This river - once the source of great controversy until it was explored by Alexander von Humboldt - is like no other, since it joins two, otherwise-separate river systems, the Orinoco and the Amazon, by apparently flowing up and over the watershed that divides them. Rivers are not meant to do that.

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