It’s like a built-in sprinkler system, meticulously balancing its environment. The Amazon River is nothing short of a natural wonder, acclaimed as the largest river by volume globally.

Eventually, they came up with the name Amazon, a reference to the river in South America. The idea was that their selection of books would be vast and wide, just like the world's largest river.

In 1848, the bank of the Amazon River was not where you'd expect to find an apprentice stocking-maker from Leicester. Self-taught British entomologist Henry Walter Bates spent 11 years collecting ...