What is the world's biggest river, by volume of water discharged?
Source of the Amazon River a water diversion project and thus a drop of water at its source may not complete the journey to the mouth of the Amazon. Thus, they proposed three sources of the Amazon: (1) the Maraňón River is the "principal source' of the Amazon, because it carries the largest volume of water; (2) the Mantaro River is the "most distant source" of the Amazon; (3) the Apurímac River is the "most distant source of uninterrupted flow" of the Amazon. Source of the Amazon River The Source of the Amazon River has been a subject of speculation and exploration for centuries. Three
The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in 2008 (by Picador in the UK and Knopf in the USA). The title is a quotation from Naipaul's book "A Bend in the River". "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." French deals with Naipaul's family background and his life from his birth in 1932 until his second marriage