Explorers of the Amazon / Anthony Smith
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1994Description: 344 p. : illus. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780226763378|
- 981.1 SMI
- F2546 .S68 1994
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Libro - Monografía | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. | 981.1 SMI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 016923 |
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981.04 HER Exploration of the valley of the Amazon | 981.06 FLO El juez de paz y el jurado en el Brasil imperial | 981.1 COL The river that God forgot : the story of the Amazon rubber boom | 981.1 SMI Explorers of the Amazon | 982 Volverán / | 982 GAR Celebraciones I : Lugones, Dario y Gerchunoff en 1910 | 982 P578 Volverán / |
Includes index
Perdo Cabral : stumbling upon Brazil -- Francisco de Orellana : first down the Amazon -- Lope de Aguirre : who killed even his dream -- Pedro de Teixeira : making the Amazon Portuguese -- Charles Marie de la Condamine : equatorial scientist -- Monsieur and Madame Godin and their separation -- Baron von Humboldt : inspiration to the world -- Spruce and Wickham : collectors extraordinary -- Julio Arana : king of the Putumayo.
Explorers of the Amazon vividly describes how European explorers such as Pedro Cabral, Francisco De Orellana, Lope de Aguirre, and Madame Godin encountered the vast wilderness of the Amazon basin; how they searched, exploited, and fought over its riches; and what they learned and failed to learn through four centuries of adventure.
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