{"product_id":"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-paperback-9781108007290","title":"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 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108007290","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA 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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1853 publication documents Alfred R. Wallace's impressively detailed observations of the then largely unknown Amazon region.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlfred Russel Wallace (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108007290, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 11 February 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e576 pages, 1 colour illus.\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.3 cm, 0.72 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Para\u003cbr\u003e 2. Para\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Tocantins\u003cbr\u003e 4. Mexiana and Marajo\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Guama and Capim rivers\u003cbr\u003e 6. Santarem and Monteallegre\u003cbr\u003e 7. Barra do Rio Negro and the Solimoes\u003cbr\u003e 8. The upper Rio Negro\u003cbr\u003e 9. Javita\u003cbr\u003e 10. First ascent of the River Uaupes\u003cbr\u003e 11. On the Rio Negro\u003cbr\u003e 12. The cataracts of the Uaupes\u003cbr\u003e 13. Sao Jeronymo to the downs\u003cbr\u003e 14. The physical geography and geology of the Amazon valley\u003cbr\u003e 15. Vegetation of the Amazon valley\u003cbr\u003e 16. Observations on the zoology of the Amazon district\u003cbr\u003e 17. On the aborigines of the Amazon\u003cbr\u003e Appendix.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20anthropology,%20ethnography%20%5BJHMC%5D%22\"\u003eJHMC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265915244824,"sku":"9781108007290","price":40.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108007290i_2dc446a8-63d1-44b2-a250-06590105cb42.jpg?v=1694867357","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/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-paperback-9781108007290","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}