The Amazing Amazon - FUTURE BREADBASKET OF THE WORLD? - Charles V Dorothy - March 1970

Charles V Dorothy

Will today's STARVING MASSES be saved by growing food in the two -and-one-half-million-acre Amazon Basin? Can the wealth of this vast jungle frontier be unlocked? Here are the little-understood, on the -spot answers reported by our own staff. Iquitos, Peru. Three-foot-high waves lash our little launch. Gray, chill water threatens to swamp our boat as ominous fog closes in - cutting us off from the distant shore. The five Italians and I would normally not be so frightened by three-foot waves, stinging rain and fog, except for several strange facts: We are not at sea. We are nearly 3,000 miles up the Amazon River… lost in the fog… maybe miles from the river banks! - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library