The boiling river: adventure and discovery in the Amazon

✍ Scribed by Andrés Ruzo

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster/ TED
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1501119486

✦ Synopsis

In this exciting adventure mixed with amazing scientific discovery, a young, exuberant explorer and geoscientist, journeys deep into the Amazon--where rivers boil and legends come to life.
When Andres Ruzo was just a small boy in Peru, his grandfather told him the story of a mysterious legend: There is a river, deep in the Amazon, which boils as if a fire burns below it. It was a story that would haunt Ruzo his entire childhood. Twenty years later, Ruzo--now a geoscientist--hears his aunt mention that she herself had visited this strange river.

Determined to prove the river must be merely legend, Ruzo sets out on a journey deep into the Amazon**.** But what he finds astounds him: In this long, wide, and winding river, the waters run so hot that locals brew tea in them; small animals that fall in are instantly cooked. Over the next few years, Ruzo returns again and again, trying to uncover the secret. As he studies alongside the locals, including...