Wanderings in South America (Esprios Classics) - Waterton, Charles
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Charles Waterton (3 June 1782 - 27 May 1865) was an English naturalist and explorer. He is best known as a pioneering conservationist. He was educated at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire where his interest in exploration and wildlife were already evident. In 1804 he travelled to British Guiana to take charge of his uncle's estates near Georgetown. In 1812 he started to explore the hinterland of the colony, making four journeys between then and 1824, and reaching Brazil walking barefoot in the rainy season. He described his discoveries in his book Waterton's Wanderings in South America, which…mehr

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Charles Waterton (3 June 1782 - 27 May 1865) was an English naturalist and explorer. He is best known as a pioneering conservationist. He was educated at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire where his interest in exploration and wildlife were already evident. In 1804 he travelled to British Guiana to take charge of his uncle's estates near Georgetown. In 1812 he started to explore the hinterland of the colony, making four journeys between then and 1824, and reaching Brazil walking barefoot in the rainy season. He described his discoveries in his book Waterton's Wanderings in South America, which inspired British schoolboys such as Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
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Charles Waterton (June 3, 1782 - May 27, 1865) was an English naturalist, plantation supervisor, and explorer most recognized for his conservation work. Waterton was descended from Reiner de Waterton, a Roman Catholic landed gentry family. Because the Watertons remained Catholic following the English Reformation, the vast bulk of their lands were confiscated. Charles Waterton was a devoted and ascetic Catholic who kept close ties with the Vatican. Thomas Waterton and Anne Bedingfield gave birth to "Squire" Waterton at Walton Hall in Wakefield, Yorkshire. He attended Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, where he developed an interest in exploration and nature. Waterton was once spotted by the school's Jesuit Superior mounting the towers at the front of the building; nearly at the top, the Superior ordered him to come down the same manner he had gone up. I succeeded in following my calling. The rodents vanished by the dozen; the books were relatively well-read; and, in my opinion, everything went perfectly well."