A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon
Seiten
2010
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-00729-0 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-00729-0 (ISBN)
Meticulous in its detail and impressive in its scope, Alfred R. Wallace's 1853 Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro documents a four-year expedition that launched his scientific career. Wallace's sharp observations of Amazonian geology, topography, flora, fauna and peoples provide a stimulating account of the region.
A friend of Charles Darwin and a social activist respected by John Stuart Mill, Alfred R. Wallace (1823–1913) was an outstanding nineteenth-century intellectual. Wallace, renowned in his time as the co-discoverer of natural selection, was a young schoolteacher when he began his exciting career as an explorer-naturalist, and set off for Brazil in 1848 with Henry Walter Bates. A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro (1853) is the stimulating and engaging result of this first expedition and a precursor to his best-selling Malay Archipelago (1869). The depth and breadth of Wallace's observations in this book as naturalist, anthropologist and geologist are remarkable, and it is tantalising to learn that half his notes and 'the greater part of [his] collections and sketches' were lost at sea when his ship was burned on his voyage home.
A friend of Charles Darwin and a social activist respected by John Stuart Mill, Alfred R. Wallace (1823–1913) was an outstanding nineteenth-century intellectual. Wallace, renowned in his time as the co-discoverer of natural selection, was a young schoolteacher when he began his exciting career as an explorer-naturalist, and set off for Brazil in 1848 with Henry Walter Bates. A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro (1853) is the stimulating and engaging result of this first expedition and a precursor to his best-selling Malay Archipelago (1869). The depth and breadth of Wallace's observations in this book as naturalist, anthropologist and geologist are remarkable, and it is tantalising to learn that half his notes and 'the greater part of [his] collections and sketches' were lost at sea when his ship was burned on his voyage home.
Preface; 1. Para; 2. Para; 3. The Tocantins; 4. Mexiana and Marajo; 5. The Guama and Capim rivers; 6. Santarem and Monteallegre; 7. Barra do Rio Negro and the Solimoes; 8. The upper Rio Negro; 9. Javita; 10. First ascent of the River Uaupes; 11. On the Rio Negro; 12. The cataracts of the Uaupes; 13. Sao Jeronymo to the downs; 14. The physical geography and geology of the Amazon valley; 15. Vegetation of the Amazon valley; 16. Observations on the zoology of the Amazon district; 17. On the aborigines of the Amazon; Appendix.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.2.2010 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Library Collection - Latin American Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 Line drawings, color |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 720 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Südamerika |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-00729-5 / 1108007295 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-00729-0 / 9781108007290 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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