Amazonia is a book of Brazilian folk tales. Mermaids, serpents, tigers, snakes, flying men, witches — extraordinary creatures from the world’s most important jungle live on in these tales. The stories are fascinating, and sometimes startling, as protagonists are killed off or transformed into animals — or rise up precipitously into the heavens. More than just rollicking adventures, they offer a panorama of experience — conflict and death, love and seduction, greed and gluttony, hunting and fishing, cooking and caring for plants — and describe the origins of the natural world.
- ISBN: 9781554981854
- Author: Munduruku, Daniel
- Illustrator: Popov, Nikolai
- Published: 2013 , Pgw
- Themes: Amazon, Indigenous
- Descriptors: Brazil, Folklore and Fairy Tales, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Myths and Legends, Short Stories - Anthologies - Collections
- No. of pages: 128