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  • A meal of beans, rice and noodles in Mancapuru, Brazil
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  • Rancher Francisco Da Silva Correia holds a shotgun and recounts the story of how he killed the jaguar, whose skin is on the wall, in his riverside home near the town of Caviana, Amazonas, Brazil.
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  • Vendors sell fish at a market in Mancapuru, Brazil.
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  • A breakfast of plantains at Bungalow Hotel in Mancapuru, Brazil.
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  • A man takes nap in a hammock on a riverboat in Manacapuru, Brazil. Riverboats ply the network of rivers that drain the vast Amazon basin which has very few roads. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel, authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets with fisherman João Agostinho Cardoso da Silva at his floating house on a branch of the Solimoes River near Manacapuru, Brazil. (João Agostinho Cardoso da Silva is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Photo was taken after the food portrait. MODEL RELEASED.  PJM
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  • Solange Da Silva Correia reads the Bible to her husband and daughter-in-law at breakfast prayer time in her riverside home near the town of Caviana, Amazonas, Brazil. (Solange Da Silva Correia is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) PJM
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  • Customers line up for a noodle dish aboard a boat in Mancapuru, Brazil.
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  • Boats dock at a business center in Mancapuru, Brazil.
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  • Solange Da Silva Correia helps her grandchildren get ready for school in their bedroom of her riverside home near the town of Caviana in Amazonas, Brazil. (Solange Da Silva Correia is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The children load up their backpacks and use one of the family's outboard canoes to get to school in nearby Caviana, 20 minutes downriver.
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  • Solange and Francisco da Silva Correia's grandchildren use one of the family's outboard canoes to get to school in the nearby town of Caviana in Amazonia, Brazil, 20 minutes downriver.  (Solange Da Silva Correira is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Riverboat traffic near Manacapuru  Brazil steams along the Solimoes River. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Riverboats ply the network of rivers that drain the vast Amazon basin. In the dry season the banks of the Solimoes are exposed, but during the rainy season the water rises 40 feet to the top of the banks, filling inland lakes and depositing a blanket of silt.
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  • A riverboat captain lunches on rice, beans, spaghetti, potatoes, and pork as he steers upstream from Manacapuru, on the Solimoes River in Brazil. iverboats ply the network of rivers that drain the vast Amazon basin which has very few roads. (From the Book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Riverboat passengers relax in a web of hammocks on the Solimoes River in Brazil. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Solange Da Silva Correia, a rancher's wife, with family members in their house overlooking the Solimoes River, with her typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of November was 3400 kcals.  She is 49 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall; and 168 pounds.  She and her husband, Francisco (sitting behind her, at right), live outside the village of Caviana with three of their four grandchildren in a house built by his grandfather. They raise cattle to earn income?and sometimes a sheep or two to eat themselves?but generally they rely on their daily catch of fish, and eggs from their chickens, for animal protein. They harvest fruit and Brazil nuts on their property and buy rice, pasta, and cornmeal from a store in Caviana. They also purchase Solange's favorite soft drink made from guarana?a highly caffeinated berry indigenous to the country.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Solange Da Silva Correia, a rancher's wife who lives in riverside house near the town of Caviana in Amazonas, Brazil. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of November was 3400.  She is 49 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall; and 168 pounds.  She and her husband, Francisco live outside the village of Caviana with three of their four grandchildren in a house built by his grandfather. They raise cattle to earn income (and sometimes a sheep or two to eat themselves) but generally they rely on their daily catch of fish, and eggs from their chickens, for animal protein. They harvest fruit and Brazil nuts on their property and buy rice, pasta, and cornmeal from a store in Caviana. They also purchase Solange's favorite soft drink made from guarana (a highly caffeinated berry indigenous to the country).  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Solange and Francisco Da Silva Correia's grandchildren leave their grandparents' riverside home for school near the town of Caviana, Amazonas, Brazil.  (Solange Da Silva Correia is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)   They  use one of the family's outboard canoes to get to school in the nearby town of Caviana in Amazonia, Brazil, 20 minutes downriver.
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  • Solange Da Silva Correia prepares her family's fish dinner by the light of an oil lamp at the kitchen window of their riverside farmhouse near the town of Caviana, Amazonas, Brazil. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of November was 3400 kcals. She is 49 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall; and 168 pounds.  With no indoor plumbing, she tackles anything messy on an overhanging counter, letting chickens and dogs clean up the scraps below.
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  • A monkey scratches its head on the banks of the Solimoes River in Mancapuru, Brazil
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  • Brazilian fisherman João Agustinho Cardoso floating home on the Salimoes River in near the town of Manacapuru, Brazil.  (João Agustinho Cardoso is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Breakfast-time at the riverside home of Solange and Francisco da Silva Correia near the town of Caviana, Amazonas, Brazil. (Solange Da Silva Correia is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • João Agustinho Cardoso, fishes in a shallow lake near the Solimoes River in Manacapuru, Brazil. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food for a typical day in the month of November was 5200 kcals. He is 69 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall and 140 pounds.  João's new house has no electricity and the toilet is simply the end of the big balsa wood logs the house is floating on. There is, however, running water, and plenty of it, in the half-mile-wide branch of the river they live on. Unfortunately the water is not potable, but it is teeming with fish, including piranha, which can make swimming during the early morning or evening worrisome. The curimata in the photo is just one of dozens of species that makes its way onto João's table. Absent from his daily diet are any alcoholic or caffeinated beverages, eschewed by his Seventh-day Adventist religion.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A boy stands on the deck of a river boat that has stopped alongside the floating home of João Agustinho Cardoso, a fisherman who lives on a branch of the Solimoes River 6 hours upstream from the town of Manacapuru, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.   (João Agustinho Cardoso is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Brazilian fisherman João Agostinho Cardoso da Silva's floating home on the Salimones River in near the town of Manacapuru, Brazil.  (João Agostinho Cardoso da Silva is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Peter Menzel, photojournalist and co-author of book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets dives into the  pihranha invested Solimoes River from the floating home of João Agustinho Cardoso, a fisherman who lives on a branch of the Solimoes River upriver from the town of Manacapuru, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. MODEL RELEASED.  PJM
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  • Lights illuminate the Amazon Theater in Manaus, Brazil at dusk as a lightning storm flashes over the Solimoes River. The opera house was built in eclectic neo-classic style during the rubber boom period in the 1890's.
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  • Motorcycle taxis tout for customers in Mancapuru, Brazil
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  • Fruit and vegetable vendors unload produce at the dock for a busy day at the market in Mancapuru, Brazil.
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  • Solange Da Silva Correia prepares a meal inside her riverside home near the town of Caviana in Amazonas, Brazil while her grandchildren play with a turtle that they will eat for a special meal.    (Solange Da Silva Correira is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of November was 3400.  She is 49 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall; and 168 pounds.
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  • Breakfast before a school day at the riverside home of Solange and Francisco da Silva Correia near the town of Caviana, Amazonas, Brazil. (Solange Da Silva Correia is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Brazilian fisherman João Agustinho Cardoso at his floating home on the Salimones River in near the town of Manacapuru, Brazil.  (João Agustinho Cardoso da Silva is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • João Agustinho Cardoso, fishes in a shallow lake near the Solimoes River in Manacapuru, Brazil. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food for a typical day in the month of November was 5200 kcals. He is 69 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall and 140 pounds.  João's new house has no electricity and the toilet is simply the end of the big balsa wood logs the house is floating on. There is, however, running water, and plenty of it, in the half-mile-wide branch of the river they live on. Unfortunately the water is not potable, but it is teeming with fish, including piranha, which can make swimming during the early morning or evening worrisome. The curimata in the photo is just one of dozens of species that makes its way onto João's table. Absent from his daily diet are any alcoholic or caffeinated beverages, eschewed by his Seventh-day Adventist religion.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Families go about their daily business on a houseboat on the Solimoes River in Brazil after a passenger disembarks from a riverboat that stopped at their floating house.  Riverboats ply the network of rivers that drain the vast Amazon basin which has very few roads.
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  • Riverboat passengers relax in a web of hammocks on the Solimoes River upstream from Manacapuru, Brazil.
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  • A fisherman grills fresh fish and chicken on the Solimoes River in Manacapuru, Brazil.
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  • A savory cornmeal cake steamed in a tin-can contraption invented by Francisco Da Silva Correia, a rancher who lives with his wife, Solange,  and family in a riverside home near the town of Caviana in Amazonas, Brazil.  (Solange Da Silva Correira is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • João Agustinho Cardoso, a fisherman, in his floating house on a branch of the Solimoes River with his typical day's worth of food in  Manacapuru, Brazil. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food for a typical day in the month of November was 5200 kcals. He is 69 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall and 140 pounds.  João's new house has no electricity and the toilet is simply the end of the big balsa wood logs the house is floating on. There is, however, running water, and plenty of it, in the half-mile-wide branch of the river they live on. Unfortunately the water is not potable, but it is teeming with fish, including piranha, which can make swimming during the early morning or evening worrisome. The curimata in the photo is just one of dozens of species that makes its way onto João's table. Absent from his daily diet are any alcoholic or caffeinated beverages, eschewed by his Seventh-day Adventist religion.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Boats docking on the Solimoes River in Mancapuru, Brazil. Riverboats ply the network of rivers that drain the vast Amazon basin which has very few roads.
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  • João Agustinho Cardoso, fishes in a shallow lake near the Solimoes River in Manacapuru, Brazil. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food for a typical day in the month of November was 5200 kcals. He is 69 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall and 140 pounds.  João's new house has no electricity and the toilet is simply the end of the big balsa wood logs the house is floating on. There is, however, running water, and plenty of it, in the half-mile-wide branch of the river they live on. Unfortunately the water is not potable, but it is teeming with fish, including piranha, which can make swimming during the early morning or evening worrisome. The curimata in the photo is just one of dozens of species that makes its way onto João's table. Absent from his daily diet are any alcoholic or caffeinated beverages, eschewed by his Seventh-day Adventist religion.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Fresh fish being cleaned at a shop on the dock on the Solimoes River in Manacapuru, Brazil.
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  • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Menzel & D’Aluisio book projects retrospective at RIO+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, 2012.
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  • Iguazu Falls, a series of large waterfalls on the Brazil and Parguay  border with Argentina. Argentina.
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  • Peter Menzel, photojournalist and co-author of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets photographs rancher's wife Solange Da Silva Correia at her home  near Manacapuru, Brazil. (Solange Da Silva Correia is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED. PJM
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  • ARG_11_xs.Iguazu Falls, a series of large waterfalls on the Brazil and Parguay  border with Argentina. Argentina.
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  • Iguazu Falls, a series of large waterfalls on the Brazil and Paraguay border with Argentina. Argentina.
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