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A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon: Cambridge Library Collection - Latin American Studies

Autor Alfred Russel Wallace
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 feb 2010
A friend of Charles Darwin and a social activist respected by John Stuart Mill, Alfred R. Wallace (1823–1913) was an outstanding nineteenth-century intellectual. Wallace, renowned in his time as the co-discoverer of natural selection, was a young schoolteacher when he began his exciting career as an explorer-naturalist, and set off for Brazil in 1848 with Henry Walter Bates. A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro (1853) is the stimulating and engaging result of this first expedition and a precursor to his best-selling Malay Archipelago (1869). The depth and breadth of Wallace's observations in this book as naturalist, anthropologist and geologist are remarkable, and it is tantalising to learn that half his notes and 'the greater part of [his] collections and sketches' were lost at sea when his ship was burned on his voyage home.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108007290
ISBN-10: 1108007295
Pagini: 576
Ilustrații: 1 colour illus.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.72 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Library Collection - Latin American Studies

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface; 1. Para; 2. Para; 3. The Tocantins; 4. Mexiana and Marajo; 5. The Guama and Capim rivers; 6. Santarem and Monteallegre; 7. Barra do Rio Negro and the Solimoes; 8. The upper Rio Negro; 9. Javita; 10. First ascent of the River Uaupes; 11. On the Rio Negro; 12. The cataracts of the Uaupes; 13. Sao Jeronymo to the downs; 14. The physical geography and geology of the Amazon valley; 15. Vegetation of the Amazon valley; 16. Observations on the zoology of the Amazon district; 17. On the aborigines of the Amazon; Appendix.

Descriere

This 1853 publication documents Alfred R. Wallace's impressively detailed observations of the then largely unknown Amazon region.