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Unknown Amazon

Cultures of the tropical forest, both past and present.

Colin McEwan | Published in History Today Volume 51 Issue 11 November 2001

Pictured: the black-eared fairy (Heliothryx aurita) whose habitat is the lowlands of the Amazon basin, as is the passionflower (Passiflora racemosa). Hummingbird and Passionflowers (detail), c.1875–85, Martin Johnson Heade. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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