Through the Brazilian Wilderness

Through the Brazilian Wilderness

by Theodore Roosevelt
Through the Brazilian Wilderness

Through the Brazilian Wilderness

by Theodore Roosevelt

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Overview

A harrowing chronicle of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition through Brazil and Paraguay to map the 950-mile River of Doubt.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781931839563
Publisher: Ross & Perry, Inc.
Publication date: 03/20/2004
Pages: 440
Product dimensions: 0.98(w) x 5.00(h) x 8.00(d)

About the Author

Theodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth president of the United States of America. One of America’s most popular presidents, Roosevelt was an avid outdoorsman and historian, and a vivacious reader; he contributed hundreds of books to the literary world, writing of his adventures in Africa and South America. Roosevelt passed away in 1919 at the age of sixty.

Table of Contents

Chapter I The Start 1

Chapter II Up the Paraguay 38

Chapter III A Jaguar-Hunt on the Taquary 62

Chapter IV The Headwaters of the Paraguay 95

Chapter V Up the River of Tapirs 132

Chapter VI Through the Highland Wilderness of Western Brazil 167

Chapter VII With a Mule-Train Across Nhambiquara Land 203

Chapter VIII The River of Doubt 243

Chapter IX Down an Unknown River into the Equatorial Forest 282

Chapter X To the Amazon and Home; Zoological and Geographical Results of the Expedition 321

Appendices

A The Work of the Field Zoologist and Field Geographer in South America 343

B The Outfit for Travelling in the South American Wilderness 353

C My Letter of May I to General Lauro Müller 370

Index 373

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