Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes: Being Records Of Travel On The Amazon And Its Tributaries, The Trombetas, Rio Negro, UaupéS, . . . - ... Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga and Pastasa - Brossura

Spruce, Richard

 
9781108069205: Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes: Being Records Of Travel On The Amazon And Its Tributaries, The Trombetas, Rio Negro, UaupéS, . . . - ... Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga and Pastasa

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The 1908 two-volume narrative of unprecedented botanical exploration in South America, the fruits of which are still significant.

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Descrizione del libro

The botanist Richard Spruce (1817–93) spent fifteen years travelling in South America, studying and collecting numerous plant specimens. His narrative of this endeavour was edited as a labour of love by his fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) and published posthumously in two volumes in 1908.

Contenuti

Preface; Biographical introduction; List of books and papers; 1. Pará and the equatorial forests; 2. Voyage to Santarem and first residence there; 3. To Obydos and the River Trombetas; 4. Residence at Santarem; 5. Geology and botany of Santarem; 6. From Santarem to the Rio Negro; 7. Residence at Manáos; 8. Voyage up the Rio Negro at Sao Gabriel; 9. Cataracts and mountain-forests of Sao Gabriel; 10. Cataracts and unexplored forests of the Uaupés river; 11. At San Carlos do Rio Negro; 12. In Humboldt's country; 13. To the cataracts of the Orinoco and return to San Carlos; 14. San Carlos to Manáos (Barra).

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