Across the Peruvian Deserts, Over the Andes, and Down the Amazon

The team of explorers sat on the edge of the foreboding canopy of the Amazon jungle. It was 1919 and few Europeans or Americans had ventured into the depths of this section of the Amazon jungle.

This is the story, based upon the journal of an ordinary young man from a typical small mid-western town, and the journey he and fellow team members took from the harbor of New York, through the Panama Canal, across the deserts of Peru, up the Inca trails of the Andes, and down the vast waterway of ...