Dennis+Neumann


 * AUTHOR **: James Rollins

 **TITLE**: Amazonia

 **PUBLICATION DATE**: 2002

 **NUMBER OF PAGES**: 624

 **GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING**: Amazon Rainforest, United States

 **TIME PERIOD**: Twentieth century

 **PLOT SUMMARY**: A scientific expedition enters the Amazon rainforest and disappears. Years later, a single member of the expedition stumbles out of the forest, sick and delirous, and dies soon after. However, he lost an arm before he went in, and returned with two. Two rival expeditions try to find the lost expedition and the secret to regrowing amputated limbs, and find a cure for a virulent disease spreading from the dead man.

 **SUBJECT HEADINGS**: Amazon, medical mysteries, plague, contagion, action, adventure, science fiction, military, scientists

 **APPEAL**: fast paced, danger, jungle adventure, medical mystery, “save the world”

**SIMILAR AUTHORS**: Clive Cussler, Jack du Brul, Matthew Reilly, Raymond Khoury

 **AUTHOR**: Miles Harvey

**TITLE**: The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">**BRIEF SUMMARY**: Miles Harvey traces the story of Gilbert Bland, an antique map dealer who was caught tearing maps from atlases in <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">the rare books library at John Hopkins University. The development of the rare map industry and map collecting is also followed, including <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">interviews with other map dealers and collectors.