The Rubber Country of the Amazon
"Pearson...is the rubber expert of the world...development of rubber is a thrilling commercial romance. Mr. Pearson played an important part in it...snooping about in the remote places of the world...he slept in native huts in insect-infested jungles...all strictly at his own expense." -LA Times, Nov. 10, 1935
"Pearson... the editor of the India Rubber World...gives his pages an attractive quality...humor colors brightly every hardship that was met on the long river voyages to the very limit of navigation." -Boston Evening Transcript, Aug. 2, 1911
"Henry Clemens Pearson...an important authority on the rubber industry, died yesterday...manufacturers laughed at him when he predicted great rubber plantations in far-flung tropical regions, but he helped develop them." -LA Times, June 11, 1936
"Henry Clemens Pearson...is said to know more about rubber than any man in the United States." -Honolulu Advertiser, Jan. 31, 1926
Sleeping in insect-ridden huts of indigenous rubber tappers in the Amazon rain forest, what adventures and hardships did Rubber expert Pearson endure in his 1910 tour of Brazilian rubber regions, undertaken for purposes of starting rubber plantations?
Henry Clemens Pearson (1858 — 1936) was the editor of THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD, and in the best and brightest style of a clever American journalist gives a detailed description of the great rubber industry of the Amazon Valley in his 1911 book "The Rubber Country of the Amazon."
After being a rubber manufacturer, and for 25 years a writer on rubber; after traveling through the rubber-planting belt around the world, and visiting all the plantation centers of Mexico, Central America and the Far East, the author spent a winter in the country of the Amazon, leisurely traversing the course of that great river from Para to Manaos and beyond.
He describes the country, its flora and fauna; its people and their customs; the rubber forests, the gatherer's life and methods, and the processes of tapping and coagulating. He covers the upper Amazon and its tributaries and describes the rubber interests of Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, and of Acre—the richest rubber territory in the world.
In addition to this, the book deals with the various phases of planting, gathering and marketing of rubber, and will be found both a highly instructive and very entertaining narrative of a section intimately known to few, but of great and increasing interest to many.
Mr. Pearson's observations were by no means confined to rubber. His book is full of interesting general information, garnered by the way. Mr. Pearson saw everything, talked with everyone, and photographed almost everything he saw, with the result, as he has the power of writing clearly, that the readers of his book acquire a considerable knowledge of the rubber industry in all its branches.
About the author:
Henry Clemens Pearson (1858 — 1936) was employed with Tyer Rubber Company, Andover, Massachusetts, 1875-1881. Manager, Hayward Rubber Company, Bozrahville, Connecticut, 1881-1883. General newspaper work and foreign correspondent, 1885-1889.
Founded, 1889, and editor The India Rubber World. Expert on India rubber, Paris Exposition, 1900, St. Louis Exposition, 1904. Vice president International Rubber Exposition, New York, 1911. Fellow Royal Geography Society, American Geography Society.
Other books by Pearson include:
"What I saw in the tropics; a record of visits to Ceylon, the Federaed Malay states, Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, republic of Panama, Columbia, Jamaica, Hawaii"
"Rubber tires and all about them"
"Rubber machinery; an encyclopedia of machines used in rubber manufacture"
"Crude rubber and compounding ingredients"
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"Pearson... the editor of the India Rubber World...gives his pages an attractive quality...humor colors brightly every hardship that was met on the long river voyages to the very limit of navigation." -Boston Evening Transcript, Aug. 2, 1911
"Henry Clemens Pearson...an important authority on the rubber industry, died yesterday...manufacturers laughed at him when he predicted great rubber plantations in far-flung tropical regions, but he helped develop them." -LA Times, June 11, 1936
"Henry Clemens Pearson...is said to know more about rubber than any man in the United States." -Honolulu Advertiser, Jan. 31, 1926
Sleeping in insect-ridden huts of indigenous rubber tappers in the Amazon rain forest, what adventures and hardships did Rubber expert Pearson endure in his 1910 tour of Brazilian rubber regions, undertaken for purposes of starting rubber plantations?
Henry Clemens Pearson (1858 — 1936) was the editor of THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD, and in the best and brightest style of a clever American journalist gives a detailed description of the great rubber industry of the Amazon Valley in his 1911 book "The Rubber Country of the Amazon."
After being a rubber manufacturer, and for 25 years a writer on rubber; after traveling through the rubber-planting belt around the world, and visiting all the plantation centers of Mexico, Central America and the Far East, the author spent a winter in the country of the Amazon, leisurely traversing the course of that great river from Para to Manaos and beyond.
He describes the country, its flora and fauna; its people and their customs; the rubber forests, the gatherer's life and methods, and the processes of tapping and coagulating. He covers the upper Amazon and its tributaries and describes the rubber interests of Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, and of Acre—the richest rubber territory in the world.
In addition to this, the book deals with the various phases of planting, gathering and marketing of rubber, and will be found both a highly instructive and very entertaining narrative of a section intimately known to few, but of great and increasing interest to many.
Mr. Pearson's observations were by no means confined to rubber. His book is full of interesting general information, garnered by the way. Mr. Pearson saw everything, talked with everyone, and photographed almost everything he saw, with the result, as he has the power of writing clearly, that the readers of his book acquire a considerable knowledge of the rubber industry in all its branches.
About the author:
Henry Clemens Pearson (1858 — 1936) was employed with Tyer Rubber Company, Andover, Massachusetts, 1875-1881. Manager, Hayward Rubber Company, Bozrahville, Connecticut, 1881-1883. General newspaper work and foreign correspondent, 1885-1889.
Founded, 1889, and editor The India Rubber World. Expert on India rubber, Paris Exposition, 1900, St. Louis Exposition, 1904. Vice president International Rubber Exposition, New York, 1911. Fellow Royal Geography Society, American Geography Society.
Other books by Pearson include:
"What I saw in the tropics; a record of visits to Ceylon, the Federaed Malay states, Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, republic of Panama, Columbia, Jamaica, Hawaii"
"Rubber tires and all about them"
"Rubber machinery; an encyclopedia of machines used in rubber manufacture"
"Crude rubber and compounding ingredients"
The Rubber Country of the Amazon
"Pearson...is the rubber expert of the world...development of rubber is a thrilling commercial romance. Mr. Pearson played an important part in it...snooping about in the remote places of the world...he slept in native huts in insect-infested jungles...all strictly at his own expense." -LA Times, Nov. 10, 1935
"Pearson... the editor of the India Rubber World...gives his pages an attractive quality...humor colors brightly every hardship that was met on the long river voyages to the very limit of navigation." -Boston Evening Transcript, Aug. 2, 1911
"Henry Clemens Pearson...an important authority on the rubber industry, died yesterday...manufacturers laughed at him when he predicted great rubber plantations in far-flung tropical regions, but he helped develop them." -LA Times, June 11, 1936
"Henry Clemens Pearson...is said to know more about rubber than any man in the United States." -Honolulu Advertiser, Jan. 31, 1926
Sleeping in insect-ridden huts of indigenous rubber tappers in the Amazon rain forest, what adventures and hardships did Rubber expert Pearson endure in his 1910 tour of Brazilian rubber regions, undertaken for purposes of starting rubber plantations?
Henry Clemens Pearson (1858 — 1936) was the editor of THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD, and in the best and brightest style of a clever American journalist gives a detailed description of the great rubber industry of the Amazon Valley in his 1911 book "The Rubber Country of the Amazon."
After being a rubber manufacturer, and for 25 years a writer on rubber; after traveling through the rubber-planting belt around the world, and visiting all the plantation centers of Mexico, Central America and the Far East, the author spent a winter in the country of the Amazon, leisurely traversing the course of that great river from Para to Manaos and beyond.
He describes the country, its flora and fauna; its people and their customs; the rubber forests, the gatherer's life and methods, and the processes of tapping and coagulating. He covers the upper Amazon and its tributaries and describes the rubber interests of Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, and of Acre—the richest rubber territory in the world.
In addition to this, the book deals with the various phases of planting, gathering and marketing of rubber, and will be found both a highly instructive and very entertaining narrative of a section intimately known to few, but of great and increasing interest to many.
Mr. Pearson's observations were by no means confined to rubber. His book is full of interesting general information, garnered by the way. Mr. Pearson saw everything, talked with everyone, and photographed almost everything he saw, with the result, as he has the power of writing clearly, that the readers of his book acquire a considerable knowledge of the rubber industry in all its branches.
About the author:
Henry Clemens Pearson (1858 — 1936) was employed with Tyer Rubber Company, Andover, Massachusetts, 1875-1881. Manager, Hayward Rubber Company, Bozrahville, Connecticut, 1881-1883. General newspaper work and foreign correspondent, 1885-1889.
Founded, 1889, and editor The India Rubber World. Expert on India rubber, Paris Exposition, 1900, St. Louis Exposition, 1904. Vice president International Rubber Exposition, New York, 1911. Fellow Royal Geography Society, American Geography Society.
Other books by Pearson include:
"What I saw in the tropics; a record of visits to Ceylon, the Federaed Malay states, Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, republic of Panama, Columbia, Jamaica, Hawaii"
"Rubber tires and all about them"
"Rubber machinery; an encyclopedia of machines used in rubber manufacture"
"Crude rubber and compounding ingredients"
"Pearson... the editor of the India Rubber World...gives his pages an attractive quality...humor colors brightly every hardship that was met on the long river voyages to the very limit of navigation." -Boston Evening Transcript, Aug. 2, 1911
"Henry Clemens Pearson...an important authority on the rubber industry, died yesterday...manufacturers laughed at him when he predicted great rubber plantations in far-flung tropical regions, but he helped develop them." -LA Times, June 11, 1936
"Henry Clemens Pearson...is said to know more about rubber than any man in the United States." -Honolulu Advertiser, Jan. 31, 1926
Sleeping in insect-ridden huts of indigenous rubber tappers in the Amazon rain forest, what adventures and hardships did Rubber expert Pearson endure in his 1910 tour of Brazilian rubber regions, undertaken for purposes of starting rubber plantations?
Henry Clemens Pearson (1858 — 1936) was the editor of THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD, and in the best and brightest style of a clever American journalist gives a detailed description of the great rubber industry of the Amazon Valley in his 1911 book "The Rubber Country of the Amazon."
After being a rubber manufacturer, and for 25 years a writer on rubber; after traveling through the rubber-planting belt around the world, and visiting all the plantation centers of Mexico, Central America and the Far East, the author spent a winter in the country of the Amazon, leisurely traversing the course of that great river from Para to Manaos and beyond.
He describes the country, its flora and fauna; its people and their customs; the rubber forests, the gatherer's life and methods, and the processes of tapping and coagulating. He covers the upper Amazon and its tributaries and describes the rubber interests of Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, and of Acre—the richest rubber territory in the world.
In addition to this, the book deals with the various phases of planting, gathering and marketing of rubber, and will be found both a highly instructive and very entertaining narrative of a section intimately known to few, but of great and increasing interest to many.
Mr. Pearson's observations were by no means confined to rubber. His book is full of interesting general information, garnered by the way. Mr. Pearson saw everything, talked with everyone, and photographed almost everything he saw, with the result, as he has the power of writing clearly, that the readers of his book acquire a considerable knowledge of the rubber industry in all its branches.
About the author:
Henry Clemens Pearson (1858 — 1936) was employed with Tyer Rubber Company, Andover, Massachusetts, 1875-1881. Manager, Hayward Rubber Company, Bozrahville, Connecticut, 1881-1883. General newspaper work and foreign correspondent, 1885-1889.
Founded, 1889, and editor The India Rubber World. Expert on India rubber, Paris Exposition, 1900, St. Louis Exposition, 1904. Vice president International Rubber Exposition, New York, 1911. Fellow Royal Geography Society, American Geography Society.
Other books by Pearson include:
"What I saw in the tropics; a record of visits to Ceylon, the Federaed Malay states, Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, republic of Panama, Columbia, Jamaica, Hawaii"
"Rubber tires and all about them"
"Rubber machinery; an encyclopedia of machines used in rubber manufacture"
"Crude rubber and compounding ingredients"
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| Publisher: | Far West Travel Adventure |
| Publication date: | 07/11/2022 |
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