Amazon

This luxe book of photography traces National Geographic explorer Thomas Peschak's unprecedented expedition across the Amazon from source to the sea, revealing the incredible secrets of this vital waterway. In these dazzling pages, he reveals the astonishing worlds nestled between the Andes Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean. Loosely following the flow of the river from 17,000 feet to the mouth 4000 miles downstream, he captures astonishing biodiversity, novel wildlife behaviour and unique ecologies of rarely glimpsed species. Equal parts photojournalism and art, this lavish book will take readers on a breath-taking visual journey to one of the wildest places left on the planet.