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Raffles draws from a wide range of material to demonstrate that the region is an outcome of the intimately intertwined histories of humans and nonhumans. Casting new light on centuries of encounter, Raffles moves between a detailed narrative that analyzes the production of scientific knowledge about Amazonia over the centuries and an absorbing account of the extraordinary transformations to the fluvial landscape carried out over the past forty years by the inhabitants of Igarapé Guariba, four hours downstream from the nearest city.