Title:
Lost in the jungle of doom
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
Deep in the Amazon rain forest danger lurks from the tops of the canopy to the depths of the forest floor. Will you survive ferocious jaguars, hungry black caiman, and deadly dehydration?
Year Published:
2015
Series:
Physical Description:
128 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Note:
Includes glossary and index.
Contents:
Map of South America -- Welcome to your adventure! -- Jungle survival tips -- Vampire bats -- Rainforest shelter-building tips -- Jaguars -- Finding water in the rainforest -- Testing fruits for poison -- Green anacondas -- Amazing Amazon River -- Surviving without food or water -- Electric eels -- Making a fire -- Amazon River creatures -- Health and first aid -- White-lipped peccaries -- Bushmaster snake -- Piranhas -- Fishing in the Amazon -- Africanized honeybees -- Sloths -- Black caimans -- Howler monkeys -- Rabies -- Heatstroke -- Making a raft -- Poison dart frogs -- Warm water immersion foot -- Brazilian wandering spider -- Amazon monkeys -- Amazonian manatees -- Giant river otters -- Bullet ants -- The people of the Amazon River -- Native peoples of the rainforest -- More Amazon facts -- Amazon animal world records -- Disappearing Amazon -- Real-life rainforest survival stories -- Glossary -- Learning more -- Websites -- Index.
Reading Grade level:
6.0.
Grade Interest level:
5.0-8.0+
Geographic Term:
Added Author:
ISBN:
9780778707356
Publisher:
New York, NY : Crabtree Pub. Co., c2015.
