The Amazon Trail

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31 frames from The Amazon Trail, at the resolution it originally ran at. Pick one to see it at full size.

• View Peru, Indiana: someone lies on a bed in a room covered in posters, one of them of the Amazon, with a dark cat curled up beside them. at full size
• View The dream: a black jaguar stands beside a misty view of the river and the forest and says, I am the jaguar of the Inca King. at full size
• View A market: a soldier in a helmet says, Halt! I've been told to be on the lookout for a stranger. Who are you? You type your name with an on-screen row of letters. at full size
• View Asked what supplies he has, a young man in the market says he has picked out 3 tents, 400 pounds of food, 7 sets of clothing, 10 machetes, 13 harpoons, 80 first-aid kits and 20 candle lanterns. at full size
• View Supplies on Hand: 400 lbs. of food, 10 machetes, 3 shelters, 13 harpoons, 7 sets of clothes, 20 candle lanterns and 80 doses of first aid, each drawn as a row of little pictures. at full size
• View How do I go upriver? The guide answers, We go west until we get to Peru. Supplies can be traded for food, shelter, clothing or interesting items, and when food runs low you can fish. at full size
• View The town of Belém: old buildings, a church spire and a red car on a wide street, with the row of icons for the stop along the bottom. at full size
• View On the river: the canoe paddles up a wide stretch of water toward a long riverboat, below a red bar that runs from a skull to a smiling sun. at full size
• View Where are we? On a map of rivers dotted with yellow triangles, the guide says we are somewhere in the area inside the colored box, a pink square toward the east. at full size
• View Harpoon fishing: the view looks down into gray water, with a trident-shaped pointer and a few water plants at the edges. at full size
• View A catch: a piranha with sharp teeth and a red belly. What should we do with this? Keep it, Look it up or Release it. at full size
• View The guidebook page for the Giant Catfish: edible, almost as big as a pirarucu. It stays near the bottom of river channels by day, and the Amazon has about 500 species of catfish, compared to about 20 in the Mississippi. at full size
• View Exploring the forest: a palm tree with a bunch of green fruit, framed in green with arrows to look around. What should we do with this? Identify it, Look it up or Ignore it. at full size
• View Deeper in the forest: broad red and green leaves around a fallen log, with the camera pointer and arrows to look left, right, up and down. at full size
• View Naming an animal: I think it was a... Common Iguana, It's a new species!, Anaconda or Poison Dart Frog, over a forest scene with red flowers. at full size
• View The forest canopy: trees hung with round brown fruit, with the camera pointer ready to take a picture. at full size
• View The photo album: empty frames for the Leaf-cutter Ant, Rhinoceros Beetle and Termite, and a drawing of a red ant labeled It's a new species! at full size
• View A page of birds in the photo album: a Red-billed Scythebill, a Scarlet Macaw, a Spectacled Owl and a Toco Toucan. at full size
• View The guidebook's People list: What person interests you? It runs from the Maku Tribe and Captain Francisco de Orellana to Theodore Roosevelt, Alfred Russel Wallace and the Yanomamo Tribe. at full size
• View A village of long thatched houses: a woman waits for your question. You can ask her to tell you more, what the rainforest is like here, or whether she wants to trade. at full size
• View A list of items, each with a small picture: Rubber Ball, Rosewood Oil, Cinchona, Iguana, Passionflower and Curare. at full size
• View Bad news on the river: the guide says, I have bad news. I think you're sick with bubonic plague. An OK button closes the message. at full size
• View How are we doing? On the open water, the guide says we've been traveling for 140 days at a steady pace, rations are normal, 362 pounds of food are left and our health is good. at full size
• View The canoe paddles toward a shimmering blue mist that hangs over the river ahead. at full size
• View Asked about the rainforest, an older man in a suit by the river says rubber trees grow scattered through the forest, and when we tried growing them together, they spread diseases and pests much faster. at full size
• View Who are you? A man in glasses stands in front of a thatched hut at the edge of the forest: My name is Claude Lévi-Strauss. I am a French anthropologist. at full size
• View In a village of thatched roofs, a man in a three-cornered hat says, I am José Gabriel Túpac Amaru, the great-great-great-grandson of the last Inca King, Tupac Amaru. at full size
• View What is today's date? A soldier in a steel helmet and armor answers, It is maybe April, 1560. at full size
• View The last stop, Vilcabamba: stone buildings along the far shore of a wide river, under a line of mountains and a pale sun. at full size
• View The end of the quest: a gold shield with figures outlined in colored gems around a carved face, beside a man in a feathered Inca headdress, with Continue and Interpret. at full size