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Book Synopsis Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon by : William Lewis Herndon
Download or read book Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon written by William Lewis Herndon and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appointed by the Secretary of the Navy to lead the first American expedition into the Amazon Valley in 1851, this narrative is a remarkable account of adventure that captured the imagination of 19th-century America.
Book Synopsis Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon by : William Lewis Herndon
Download or read book Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon written by William Lewis Herndon and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, 1851-1852 by : William Lewis Herndon
Download or read book Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, 1851-1852 written by William Lewis Herndon and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appointed by the Secretary of the Navy to lead the first American expedition into the Amazon Valley in 1851, this narrative is a remarkable account of adventure that captured the imagination of 19th-century America.
Book Synopsis Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon: pt. 2. Atlas by : William Lewis Herndon
Download or read book Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon: pt. 2. Atlas written by William Lewis Herndon and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon by : William Lewis Herndon
Download or read book Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon written by William Lewis Herndon and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon by : Lardner Gibbon
Download or read book Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon written by Lardner Gibbon and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1854 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made Under Direction of the Navy Department, by W. L. Herndon and L. Gibbon. With Maps.
Book Synopsis Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist by : Larry Rohter
Download or read book Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist written by Larry Rohter and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Rohter’s crisp biography is a welcome addition to the new, more inclusive canon.” —Rachel Slade, New York Times Book Review A thrilling biography of the Indigenous Brazilian explorer, scientist, stateseman, and conservationist who guided Theodore Roosevelt on his journey down the River of Doubt. Cândido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked his way through jungles so inhospitable that even native peoples had avoided them—and led Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, on their celebrated “River of Doubt” journey in 1913–14. Upon leaving the Brazilian Army in 1930 with the rank of a two-star general, Rondon, himself of indigenous descent, devoted the remainder of his life to not only writing about the region’s flora and fauna, but also advocating for the peoples who inhabited the rainforest and lobbying for the creation of a system of national parks. Despite his many achievements—which include laying down a 1,200-mile telegraph line through the heart of the Amazon and three nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize—Rondon has never received his due. Originally published in Brazil, Into the Amazon is the first comprehensive biography of his life and remarkable career.
Download or read book Amazons written by Ellen Levy and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When E.J. Levy arrived in northern Brazil on a fellowship from Yale at the age of 21, she was hoping to help save the Amazon rain forest; she didn’t realize she would soon have to save herself. Amazons: A Love Story recounts an idealistic young woman’s coming of age against the backdrop of the magnificent rain forest and exotic city of Salvador. This elegant and sharp-eyed memoir explores the interaction of the many forces fueling deforestation—examining the ecological, economic, social, and spiritual costs of ill-conceived development—with the myriad ones that shape young women’s maturation. Sent to Salvador (often called the “soul of Brazil” for its rich Afro-Brazilian culture), a city far from the rain forest, Levy befriends two young Brazilians, Nel, a brilliant economics student who is estranged from her family for mysterious reasons, and Isa, a gorgeous gold digger. When the university closes due to a strike, none of them can guess what will come of their ambitions. Levy’s course of study changes: she takes up capoeira, enters cooking school (making foods praised in Brazilian literature as almost magical elixirs), gains fluency in Portuguese and the ways of street life, and learns other, more painful lessons—she is raped, and her best friend becomes a prostitute. When Levy finally reaches the Amazon, her courage—and her safety—are further tested: on a barefoot hike through the jungle one night to collect tadpoles, she encounters fist-sized spiders, swimming snakes, and crocodiles. When allergies to the antimalarial drugs meant to protect her prove life-threatening, she discovers that sometimes the greatest threat we face is ourselves. Eventually, her work as a “cartographer of loss,” charting deforestation, leads her to realize that our relationships to nature and to our bodies are linked, that we must transcend the logic of commodification if we are to save both wilderness and ourselves. The Amazon is a perennially fascinating subject, alluring and frightening, a site of cultural projection and commercial ambition, of fantasies and violence. Amazons offers an intimate look at urgent global issues that affect us all, including the too-often abstract question of rain forest loss. Levy illuminates the burgeoning sex-tourism trade in Brazil, renewed environmental threats, global warming, and the consequences of putting a price on nature. Accounts of the region have most often been by and about men, but Amazons offers a fresh approach, interweaving a personal feminist narrative with an urgent ecological one. In the tradition of Terry Tempest Williams, this timely, compelling, and eloquent memoir will appeal to those interested in literary nonfiction, travel writing, and women’s and environmental issues.
Book Synopsis Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon: pt. 1, Text by W. L. Herndon by : William Lewis Herndon
Download or read book Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon: pt. 1, Text by W. L. Herndon written by William Lewis Herndon and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The United States in Latin America by : David Shavit
Download or read book The United States in Latin America written by David Shavit and published by Greenwood Pub Group. This book was released on 1992 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the period from the seventeenth century, when trade between the United States and Latin America began, to the present, this historical dictionary provides information on the people, organizations, institutions, and events associated with the United States' presence in Latin America. Entries on people include those who visited and lived in Latin America, including sea captains and merchants, explorers, filibusters and adventurers, military officers, missionaries, government officials, businessmen, anthropologists and scientists, diplomats, and writers. Entries on organizations include business firms, missions, colleges, and naval and military bases. The volume includes some 1,200 entries, arranged alphabetically. Additional features include a short chronology and an appendix listing of chiefs of United States diplomatic missions. Access to the material is provided by an appendix listing of subjects by occupation and a full subject index. Sources of additional information are given both at the end of entries and in a bibliographical essay.
Book Synopsis The New American Cyclopaedia by : George Ripley
Download or read book The New American Cyclopaedia written by George Ripley and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The New American Cyclopædia written by George Ripley and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Amazonian Routes by : Heather F. Roller
Download or read book Amazonian Routes written by Heather F. Roller and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconstructs the world of eighteenth-century Amazonia to argue that indigenous mobility did not undermine settlement or community. In doing so, it revises longstanding views of native Amazonians as perpetual wanderers, lacking attachment to place and likely to flee at the slightest provocation. Instead, native Amazonians used traditional as well as new, colonial forms of spatial mobility to build enduring communities under the constraints of Portuguese colonialism. Canoeing and trekking through the interior to collect forest products or to contact independent native groups, Indians expanded their social networks, found economic opportunities, and brought new people and resources back to the colonial villages. When they were not participating in these state-sponsored expeditions, many Indians migrated between colonial settlements, seeking to be incorporated as productive members of their chosen communities. Drawing on largely untapped village-level sources, the book shows that mobile people remained attached to their home communities and committed to the preservation of their lands and assets. This argument still matters today, and not just to scholars, as rural communities in the Brazilian Amazon find themselves threatened by powerful outsiders who argue that their mobility invalidates their claims to territory.
Book Synopsis A Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the United States, September 5, 1774-March 4, 1881 by : Benjamin Perley Poore
Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the United States, September 5, 1774-March 4, 1881 written by Benjamin Perley Poore and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
