Henry Alexander Wickham

Rough Notes of a Journey Through the Wilderness, from Trinidad to Para, Brazil

By Way of the Great Cataracts of the Orinoco, Atabapo, and Rio Negro

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An 1872 account of travels in South and Central America, including observations on the cultivation of the rubber tree.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781108070041
• ISBN-10: 1108070043
• Artikelnr.: 40452813

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Rough Notes of a Journey through the Wilderness: 1. Starting
2. Cutipita
3. Mura raudales
4. Iguana camp
5. Jovito hill
6. A moonlight start
7. Increase of rain
8. Maroa and its vicinity
Part II. A Journey among the Woolwa or Soumoo Indians of central America: 1. Impressions of St Lucia
2. The Woolwa river
3. Starting for the Rama branch
4. Temple's explanation
5. Starting for Consuelo
6. Return to the coast
7. Continuation of journey to Blewfields
8. A prayer-meeting at Hawl-over
9. The old Soukier
Report on the industrial classes in the provinces of Pará and Amazonas.