Author : William Henry Edwards
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259499978
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (999 download)
Book Synopsis A Voyage Up the River Amazon, Including a Residence at Para (Classic Reprint) by : William Henry Edwards
Download or read book A Voyage Up the River Amazon, Including a Residence at Para (Classic Reprint) written by William Henry Edwards and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Voyage Up the River Amazon, Including a Residence at Para IN these stirring times, when all anglo-saxondom is on the qui-vive for novelty, and the discovery of a new watering place is hailed with more enthusiasm than the discovery of a new planet - when the universal Yankee nation has so nearly exhausted all the whereabouts which modern facilities for locomotion have brought so conveniently within its reach; -when the Old World has become also an old story, and Summer excursions to St. Petersburg and Tornea, and Winter sojourns in Australia and Types, have afforded amusement, not only to travelers themselves, but to those who, at their own fire-sides, like equally well to take a trip to the ends of the Earth in their comfortable arm-chairs; it has been a mat ter of surprise to me, that those who live upon the excitement of seeing and telling some new thing, have so seldom betaken themselves to our Southern continent. Promising indeed to lovers of the marvelous is that land, where the highest of Earth's mountains seek her brightest skies, as though their tall peaks sought a nearer acquaintance with the most glorious of stars; where the mightiest of rivers roll majestically through primeval forests of boundless extent, concealing, yet bringing forth the most beautiful and varied forms of animal and vegetable existence; where Peruvian gold has tempted, and Amazonian women have repulsed, the unprincipled adventurer; and where Jesuit missionaries, and luckless traders, have fallen victims to cannibal Indians, and epicurean anacondas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
