The first edition of this book was published in the early 50s. The author moved to Manaus in 1951, when the cit y lived isolated from the world and was immersed in the Amazon Rain Forest…
When the author went there, the cycle of wealth brought about the rubber was almost over. Amazonia had not awoken yet to its greatness and to the international envy.

The careful reading of the fourth edition of this book will take the reader to the past and will bring him back to the present bearing towards the future. He will become aware that almost nothing has changed, except the dispute about Amazonia. We still have to discover the "green-paradise", where everything is transformed, where the resources are going to find solutions for countless problems that afflict mankind today…

In this edition the reader will find some of the more outstanding aspects of the view emphasized in boldface: this will provide him/her a comparison between the past and present.
In reviving the unfinished work, we added what our eyes see, photographs, framed in water colors, opening the windows to a unique world and recording the transformation imposed by Nature on the Amazon Rain Forest…Start reading and you will make a pleasant journey to the Green World.

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