Written in 1898, and part of Jules Verne's famous series "Voyages Extraordinaires, " this fantastic tale a young man's search for his father along Venezuela's then-uncharted Orinoco River contains all the ingredients of a classic Verne scientific-adventure storyQas well as a unique feminist twist.

Examines the history, origins, boundaries, and uses of the Orinoco River.

Imagine yourself floating in a crystal-clear river filled with some of your favorite tropical fish. When you look down at the river bottom, you see Stingrays and schools of Corydoras. When you look to your right, you see Cardinal Tetras, and to your left, you witness schools of Severum Cichlids. You lie there, motionless, observing, and narrating what you see, what the fish do. That is what is in the book. Award-winning book that recently earned acclaim from the prestigious Next Generation Indie Book Awards! In Fishes of the Orinoco in the Wild, Venezuelan explorer Ivan Mikolji shares a breathtaking look at over 150 species of freshwater fish photographed in his underwater journeys through clear water streams in the Orinoco River basin. With images carefully selected by renowned art curator Eduardo Planchart Licea, the compilation presents a clean, minimalistic, museum-like collection of the natural underwater world of Venezuela, Colombia, the Lost World, the Amazonas inselbergs, and other remote areas in the tropical rainforests of the Guiana Shield. Each page of stunning visuals displays the original colors of the fish when in their natural habitats, along with valuable information such as GPS locations, water pH, and other species that share their biotopes. Learn what their scientific names mean, Mikolji's interesting personal observations of the fishes' behavior in the wild, and underwater photography tips such as the settings and gear used to take each image. You cannot preserve something that you don't know exists! This modern collection of fish art documents the relationships between minerals, water, plants, and animals for anyone—from scientists to hobbyists—with an interest in aquatic life.

Winner of the 2021 New Voices Book Award by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology Exploring the ways in which the development of linguistic practices helped expand national politics in remote, rural areas of Venezuela, Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta situates language as a mediating force in the creation of the 'magical state'. Focusing on the Waraos speakers of the Orinoco Delta, this book explores center–periphery dynamics in Venezuela through an innovative linguistic anthropological lens. Using a semiotic framework informed by concepts of 'transduction' and 'translation', this book combines ethnographic and historical evidence to analyze the ideological mediation and linguistic practices involved in managing a multi-ethnic citizenry in Venezuela. Juan Luis Rodriguez shows how indigenous populations participate in the formation and contestation of state power through daily practices and the use of different speech genres, emphasising the performative and semiotic work required to produce revolutionary subjects. Establishing the centrality of language and semiosis in the constitution of authority and political power, this book moves away from seeing revolution in solely economic or ideological terms. Through the collision between Warao and Spanish, it highlights how language ideologies can exclude or integrate indigenous populations in the public sphere and how they were transformed by Hugo Chavez' revolutionary government to promote loyalty to the regime.