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There are scenes so remarkably dark that I had to put the book away. There is a fine photograph of him here, every inch the Ivy League scientist with rimless glasses and crew-cut, politely leaning forward to receive a blast of psychoactive snuff being blown up his nose by a Yakuna Indian. The conquistadors searched for gold, and the Jesuit missionaries went after souls, but the trigger for Amazonia's first great economic boom was the rubber tree, known to native Brazilians as cau-chu 'tree that weeps'. European demand for rubber soared in the early 19th century.
Two inventions contributed to this - in , a Glaswegian chemist named Charles Macintosh thinned rubber with the gasworks by-product naphtha, and created the waterproof coat which bears his name; and then in the s, a 'pneumatic wheel' for bicycles was patented, the forerunner of the rubber tyre. Amazonian boom-towns such as Iquitos and Manaus boasted opera houses, electric trams and riverfront warehouses designed by top European architects.
But the rubber trade, like its counterpart in the Belgian Congo, was based on a regime of brutality and enslavement. And so we come to the 20th century, the era of the chain-saw, the interstate logging road, the Big Mac cattle-ranch, and the looming storms of tribal extinction and ecological meltdown. Hemming champions the new breed of Amazonian hero - men such as the Villas Boas brothers, who created the 10,square mile Xingu Reserve, and the murdered eco-activist Chico Mendez. Empathetic with the indigenous people, expert on flora and fauna, grimly persuasive about the dangers of current clearance rates, Hemming writes with a fluency and precision born of a deep knowledge of his story and a deep love of the continent.
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