The World And Its Peoples Venezuela Colombia Ecuador Guiana Uruguay

Most of what is known about the outside world remains superficial and stereotypical. World and Its Peoples: Eastern and Southern Asia brings a long, rich story to light about ethnic groups, the impact of terrain and natural resources, and the influence of history. This unique reference work maps out how the nations of the modern world became what they are today through photographs of the geography and people of foreign lands, through discussion of ancient and contemporary works of art and events, and through scores of maps detailing geographical features, historic and modern places, natural habitats, rainfall, locations of ethnic and linguistic groups, natural resources, and centers of industry and transportation. No single resource assembles such comprehensive insight into the world and the people who live in it.

Think of South America, and exotic images of the colourful people, the vast Amazon rainforests, the high peaks of the Andes, the plains of the Pampas and the wilds of Patagonia spring to mind. Today South America is home to some of the largest cities in the world, along with rugged wilderness, where turquoise glaciers creek and groan into almost frozen fjords. Ominous snow-covered volcanoes belch their sulphurous lavas skywards as llamas, alpacas and vicunas graze on the sparse grasslands. The rainforests are rapidly being decimated in the quest for agriculture and pasturelands for the cowboys of the rolling plains. Depicting our journeys over more than three decades across the South American continent, this pictorial guide brings to life the history and culture, geography and geology, and above all the people of South America in a very personal way.

Manual descriptivo de la República de Colombia.

Includes entries for maps and atlases.