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Sapmi, Sweden, Dec. 21, 2012 -- After spending six years in the Amazon jungle of Peru learning traditional healing techniques, Jungle Svonni returned home to Sweden only to face trumped-up charges for possession of a natural plant that is entirely legal...

Travel Porn is a feature in which I review books from my beloved travel literature genre. So far I’ve reviewed Bangkok Noir, a short story collection that brings the noir genre to the steamy streets of Thailand, Hotel Honolulu, a fictional account...

The biodiversity in these wet tropical forests is mind-blowing. It is home to the largest collection of living plant and animal species in the world. One in ten known species on this planet lives in the Amazon Rainforest. Amazonia is home to around...

After crossing the Andes Mountains and finding the source of the Amazon on bicycles, Polish brothers David Andres and Hubert Kisiński are piloting their floating “Amazon Bikes” down the world’s largest river toward the Atlantic Ocean. Amazon explorer...

by Marty West This picture needs a caption “Are you a birder?”, the happy man from Kansas City asked. He was on his way to a treehouse in the rainforest for his honeymoon. “Is that why you’re here?” No, I’m not a birder. But birds are a good place...