Amazon Frontier: The Defeat of the Brazilian Indians

Amazon Frontier: The Defeat of the Brazilian Indians by Hemming, John. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780674017252.

Amazon Frontier covers the 150 years when the first European scientists expolred the natural riches of Amazonia and became fascinated by its tribal peoples. Exciting and murderous encounters with new tribes continued throughout the nineteenth century, particularly when the Amazons rubber monopoly made Manaus a frontier boom town. However, the Indian population, once so feared by the Europeans, began to decline and they became little more than objects of anthropological study or romantic literature. John Hemming ends his account in 1910 with the creation of Brazils famous Indian Protection Service, a subject he resumes in Die If You Must