The Amazon and Madeira Rivers: Sketches and Descriptions from the Note-Book of an Explorer (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Franz Keller

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331884276 ISBN 13 : 9781331884279

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

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Présentation de l'éditeur

June 1867, my father and I, who had been studying the maps and plans of a former expedition in the province of Parana, were commissioned by the Minister of Public Works at Eio de Janeiro to explore the Madeira Eiver, and to project a railroad along its bank where, by reason of the rapids, navigation was rendered impossible. Since the end of the last century, when, in consequence of the treaty of I ldefouso in 1777, Portuguese astronomers and surveyors ascended the Madeira, no regular or reliable plans had been executed of the immense forest-covered valley. The bold descent effected some twenty years ago by the American naval officer, Gibbon, I may observe, was too hurried, and undertaken with too slender means; and another expedition, commanded by the Brazilian engineer, Major Coutinho, proved to be a complete failure, though certainly not for lack of means. Upon the ensuing of peace, after the long war with Paraguay, the old question of a way of communication between the Brazilian coast and the province of Mate Grosso came to the front; and as that clever diplomatist, Conselheiro Felippe Lopez Netto, had also succeeded in concluding a treaty of boundaries and commoree with Bolivia, fby which was secured the prospect of a passage through the valley of the Madeini, it was thought necessary that a thorough exploration should be made. General attention was, moreover, directed to that remote comer of the vast realm by the sudden appearance of a new Steam Navigation Company on the Lower Madeira, and by the recent opening of the A mazon Eiver to the flags of all nations; the realisation of the full benefit of which latter measure depends on its extension to the lateral rivers as well. The following pages embrace, in addition to a summary of the most important hydrographic results of the voyage, my remarks on the inhabitants, the vegetation, A nother voyage of disc
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331884276
• ISBN 13: 9781331884279
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 231
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