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Mystery bird: chestnut woodpecker, Celeus elegans
Manaus :: Brazil | almost 2 years ago
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Other subspecies are known alternately as the russet-crested woodpecker, the pale-crowned crested woodpecker or as the yellow-crested woodpecker, photographed on the south bank of the Rio Negro , about 35km upstream from Manaus, Amazonas, in the
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"State of Wonder": Dueling doctors in the Amazon
Manaus :: Brazil | almost 2 years ago
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Melissa Ann Pinney Ann Patchett Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" is that rare work of challenging literature to fully infiltrate the popular imagination. The novella is, of course, about how encounters between the "civilized" and the "primitive"
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State of Wonder, By Ann Patchett
Manaus :: Brazil | almost 2 years ago
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Marina is drawn further up-river The heroine of Ann Patchett's latest novel, which is set in the Amazon rainforest, knows that "it was somehow less humiliating, less disrespectful, to dance with the natives than it was to simply stand there watching
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Manaus is for every one
I travel quite often to Manaus on business. For whatever reason I actually like travelling and getting to know places and people. Many business travellers I meet in Manaus complain about the hot weather -- really hot actually -- and that
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Books of The Times: Will Perilous Trek to Amazon Reveal Heart of Darkness?
Manaus :: Brazil | almost 2 years ago
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Patricia Wall/The New York Times In Marina's reaction to this terrible news, which comes on only the book's second page, Ms. Patchett gives a quick glimpse of how crystalline and exquisite her prose can be. Marina suddenly grasps why people faced
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Brazil's crackdown on deforestation of the Amazon
Manaus :: Brazil | almost 2 years ago
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Christopher Pillitz/Alamy From the veranda of his farmhouse on the outskirts of this isolated riverside settlement, Gilvan Onofre can hear the helicopters coming, their rotors slicing through the humid Amazon air. "There is no longer any way of
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Major US airlines step up Brazil services
Manaus :: Brazil | 2 years ago
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Text Size Two of the United States' major airlines have applied for permission with the Department of Transport to increase services to Brazil by up to 10 flights a week, in a move that would bring a huge influx of American tourists to the booming
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American Airlines applies for more Brazil flights
Manaus :: Brazil | 2 years ago
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Department of Transportation is part of the phase-in of an Open Skies agreement that the U.S. and Brazil signed during President Obama's March visit to Brazil. When the Open Skies agreement is fully implemented by October 1, 2015, U.S. airlines will
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Small plane crashes in Brazilian Amazon, killing 7
Manaus :: Brazil | 2 years ago
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Brazil's federal transportation agency says a small plane has crashed in the Amazon, killing seven people...The agency says the plane crashed Thursday soon after taking off from Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state. It was heading to the city of
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World’s Top 10 Green and Eco-Friendly Hotels
Tired of the old rat race and in desperate need of getting my batteries recharged, I came across this most intriguing list of eco-friendly hotels around the world that allow me to do just that! 1) Ariau Amazon Towers, Manaus,
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