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Total Pages : 1300 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Author : Joseph Froude Woodroffe
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Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Upper Reaches of the Amazon written by Joseph Froude Woodroffe and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Froude Woodroffe
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ISBN 13 : 9780722295724
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book The Upper Reaches of the Amazon written by Joseph Froude Woodroffe and published by . This book was released on with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Euclides da Cunha
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199775184
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Amazon written by Euclides da Cunha and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-06 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eight pieces that make up Land Without History, first published in Portuguese in 1909, Euclides da Cunha offers a rare look into twentieth century Amazonia, and the consolidation of South American nation states. Mixing scientific jargon and poetic language, the essays in Land Without History provide breathtaking descriptions of the Amazonian rivers and the ever-changing nature that surrounds them. Brilliantly translated by Ronald Sousa, Land Without History offers a view of the ever changing ecology of the Amazon, and a compelling testimony to the Brazilian colonial enterprise, and its imperialist tendencies with regard to neighboring nation-states.
Author : Henry Walter Bates
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141963220
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book In the Heart of the Amazon Forest written by Henry Walter Bates and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most impressive of all Victorian scientists but also a marvellous writer, Bates' (1825-1892) account of his years in the upper reaches of the Amazon is almost too good to be true - a great monument to human inquisitiveness as he battles great hoards of malevolent reptiles and insects in his quest for ever more obscure specimens on ever more narrow and creeper-choked tributaries. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries – but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
Author : Manuel Córdova-Ríos
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Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Wizard of the Upper Amazon written by Manuel Córdova-Ríos and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of the author's experience while a captive of the Huni Kui tribes, as told to F.B. Lamb.
Author : John Hemming
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500771243
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon written by John Hemming and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In his long career of exploration and scholarship, Hemming has become a powerful advocate for the Amazon.”—The New York Times, John Hemming Amazonia is one of the most magnificent habitats on earth. Containing the world’s largest river, with more water and a broader basin than any other, it hosts a great expanse of tropical rain forest, home to the planet’s most luxuriant biological diversity. The human beings who settled in the region 10,000 years ago learned to live well with its bounty of fish, game, and vegetation. It was not until 1500 that Europeans first saw the Amazon, and, unsurprisingly, the rain forest’s unique environment has attracted larger-than-life personalities through the centuries. John Hemming recalls the adventures and misadventures of intrepid explorers, fervent Jesuit ecclesiastics, and greedy rubber barons who enslaved thousands of Indians in the relentless quest for profit. He also tells of nineteenth-century botanists, fearless advocates for Indian rights, and the archaeologists and anthropologists who have uncovered the secrets of the Amazon’s earliest settlers. Hemming discusses the current threat to Amazonia as forests are destroyed to feed the world’s appetite for timber, beef, and soybeans, and he vividly describes the passionate struggles taking place in order to utilize, protect, and understand the Amazon.
Author : Joseph Orton Kerbey
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Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Land of Tomorrow written by Joseph Orton Kerbey and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Lewis Herndon
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802198627
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, 1851–1852 written by William Lewis Herndon and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic and intimate firsthand account of a true American hero’s daring journey into the heart of the Amazon forest in the nineteenth century. Captain William Lewis Herndon was memorialized in Gary Kinder’s bestselling book Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea, which recounts Herndon’s final acts of heroism as his ship foundered in a hurricane off the Carolina coast in 1857. Seven years before those tragic events, the secretary of the Navy had appointed Herndon to lead the first American expedition into the Amazon Valley, an epic adventure that Herndon immortalized into words. Herndon departed Lima, Peru, on May 20, 1851, and arrived at Para, Brazil, nearly a year later, traveling 4,000 miles by foot, mule, canoe, and boat. He cataloged the scientific and commercial observations requested by Congress, but he filed his report as a narrative, creating an intimate portrait of an exotic land before the outside world rushed in. Herndon’s report so far surpassed his superiors’ expectations that instead of printing the obligatory few hundred copies for Congress, the secretary of the Navy ordered 10,000 copies in the first print run; three months later, he ordered 20,000 more. Herndon described his adventures with such insight, compassion, and literary grace that he came to symbolize the new spirit of exploration and discovery sweeping mid-nineteenth-century America. Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon stands as one of the greatest chronicles of travel and exploration ever written.
Author : William Lewis Herndon
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Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
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 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1857, Captain William Lewis Herndon sacrificed his life trying to save 600 passengers and crew when his ship foundered in a hurricane off the Carolina coast. Memorialized in Gary Kinder's best-selling book Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea, Herndon, with this final courageous act, epitomized a lifetime of heroism. Seven years earlier, the secretary of the Navy had appointed Herndon to lead the first American expedition into the Amazon Valley. Herndon departed Lima, Peru, on May 20, 1851, and arrived at Para, Brazil, nearly a year later, traveling 4,000 miles by foot, mule, canoe, and small boat. He cataloged the scientific and commercial observations requested by Congress, but he filed his report as a narrative, creating an intimate portrait of an exotic land before the outside world rushed in. Herndon's report so far surpassed his superiors' expectations that instead of printing the obligatory few hundred copies for Congress, the secretary of the Navy ordered 10,000 copies in the first print run; three months later, he ordered 20,000 more. Herndon described his adventures with such insight, such compassion and wit, and such literary grace that he came to symbolize the new spirit of exploration and discovery sweeping mid-nineteenth-century America. For the next hundred years, Herndon's report languished out of print before being revived briefly in 1951. Now, for the first time in nearly fifty years, Gary Kinder and Grove Press bring to readers one of the greatest chronicles of travel and exploration ever written." -- Publisher.
Author : Algot Lange
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book In the Amazon Jungle written by Algot Lange and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susanna B. Hecht
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226322831
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha written by Susanna B. Hecht and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “compelling and elegantly written” history of the fight for the Amazon basin and the work of a brilliant but overlooked Brazilian intellectual (Times Literary Supplement, UK). The fortunes of the late nineteenth century’s imperial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber—with only one source: the Amazon basin. This scenario ignited a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, Belgium, and the United States fighting with and against the new nations of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil for the forest’s riches. In the midst of this struggle, the Brazilian author and geographer Euclides da Cunha led a survey expedition to the farthest reaches of the river. The Scramble for the Amazon tells the story of da Cunha’s terrifying journey, the unfinished novel born from it, and the global strife that formed the backdrop for both. Haunted by his broken marriage, da Cunha trekked through a beautiful region thrown into chaos by guerrilla warfare, starving migrants, and native slavery. All the while, he worked on his masterpiece, a nationalist synthesis of geography, philosophy, biology, and journalism entitled Lost Paradise. Hoping to unveil the Amazon’s explorers, spies, natives, and brutal geopolitics, Da Cunha was killed by his wife’s lover before he could complete his epic work. once the biography of Da Cunha, a translation of his unfinished work, and a chronicle of the social, political, and environmental history of the Amazon, The Scramble for the Amazon is a work of thrilling intellectual ambition.
Author : Scott Wallace
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307462978
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Unconquered written by Scott Wallace and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The extraordinary true story of a journey into the deepest recesses of the Amazon to track one of the planet's last uncontacted indigenous tribes. Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding from the outside world, they are the last survivors of an ancient culture that predates the arrival of Columbus in the New World. In this gripping first-person account of adventure and survival, author Scott Wallace chronicles an expedition into the Amazon’s uncharted depths, discovering the rainforest’s secrets while moving ever closer to a possible encounter with one such tribe—the mysterious flecheiros, or “People of the Arrow,” seldom-glimpsed warriors known to repulse all intruders with showers of deadly arrows. On assignment for National Geographic, Wallace joins Brazilian explorer Sydney Possuelo at the head of a thirty-four-man team that ventures deep into the unknown in search of the tribe. Possuelo’s mission is to protect the Arrow People. But the information he needs to do so can only be gleaned by entering a world of permanent twilight beneath the forest canopy. Danger lurks at every step as the expedition seeks out the Arrow People even while trying to avoid them. Along the way, Wallace uncovers clues as to who the Arrow People might be, how they have managed to endure as one of the last unconquered tribes, and why so much about them must remain shrouded in mystery if they are to survive. Laced with lessons from anthropology and the Amazon’s own convulsed history, and boasting a Conradian cast of unforgettable characters—all driven by a passion to preserve the wild, but also wracked by fear, suspicion, and the desperate need to make it home alive—The Unconquered reveals this critical battleground in the fight to save the planet as it has rarely been seen, wrapped in a page-turning tale of adventure.
Author : Manuel Cordova-Rios
Publisher : Andesite Press
ISBN 13 : 9781297832956
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (329 download)
Download or read book Wizard of the Upper Amazon written by Manuel Cordova-Rios and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Anthony Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226763374
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Explorers of the Amazon written by Anthony Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riotously colorful history of adventures, chronicling more than 400 years in the exploration of the world's most formidable and enigmatic river system. Photographs and maps.
Author : Fritz W. Up de Graff
Publisher : London, H. Jenkins, limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Head-hunters of the Amazon written by Fritz W. Up de Graff and published by London, H. Jenkins, limited. This book was released on 1923 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
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Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
