Author: William Lewis HerndonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon
Author: William Lewis HerndonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Exploration of the valley of the Amazon, made under direction of the Navy department, by W.L. Herndon and L. Gibbon. [With] Maps
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Author: William Lewis HerndonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon
Author: William Lewis HerndonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon
Author: William Lewis HerndonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon
Author: William Lewis HerndonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon: pt. 2. Atlas
Author: William Lewis HerndonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon
Author: William Lewis HerndonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Exploration of the valley of the Amazon, made under direction of the Navy department, by W.L. Herndon and L. Gibbon. [With] Maps
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Author: William Lewis HerndonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon
Author: Lardner GibbonPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5876039233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Made Under Direction of the Navy Department, by W. L. Herndon and L. Gibbon. With Maps.
Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, 1851–1852
Author: William Lewis HerndonPublisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802198627
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
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.