Explorers of the Amazon - Couverture rigide

Smith, Anthony

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670813109 ISBN 13 : 9780670813100

Editeur : Viking, 1990

Synopsis

At present, Anthony Smith is fitting up a home-made steamboat, in which he will spend the better part of the next two years investigating the Amazon, the "world's largest river and holder of the most superlatives". He concentrates in this, the first of two books, on the most illustrious of the Amazon's explorers, beginning with Cabral, the Portugese explorer credited with having discovered Brazil in 1500, and ending with the last major expedition 392 years later. In that time the world has changed dramatically (the time-span roughly parallels that between Styvesant's arrival in Manhattan and the present day) although the Amazon will appear almost the same to the modern adventurer as it seemed to the first men that set eyes, or sail, upon it.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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. Anthony Smith not only enriches this history with fascinating geographical, political, and scientific details but also gives a strong warning to those who continue to exploit this great river's resources". The history of Amazonian exploration, wonderfully told by Anthony Smith, is awash with madness-an extravagant mixture of the malevolent and the miraculous". -Stephen Mills, Times Literary Supplement

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Viking
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0670813109
• ISBN 13: 9780670813100
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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