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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 Valley / by Alfred Russel Wallace, LL.D., author of "The Malay Archipelago," "Darwinism," Etc., Etc.
Penn Museum Library F2546 .W18 1889
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history--Amazon River Valley.
- Natural history.
- Amazon River Valley.
- Indians of South America--Amazon River Valley.
- Indians of South America.
- Indians of South America--Amazon River Valley--Languages.
- Language and languages.
- Brazil--Description and travel.
- Brazil.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- [2], xiv, 363, [1] pages, [12] unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map, portrait ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- New Edition
- Other Title:
- Travels on the Amazon
- Place of Publication:
- London : Ward, Lock & Co., Limited. [1889]
- Contents:
- Biographical Introduction / The Editors
- Preface
- Chapter I. Pará
- Chapter II. Pará
- Chapter III. The Tocantíns
- Chapter IV. Mexiana and Marajó
- Chapter V. The Guamá and Capim Rivers
- Chapter VI. Santarem and Montealegre
- Chapter VII. Barra do Rio Negro and the Solimões
- Chapter VIII. The Upper Rio Negro
- Chapter IX. Javita
- Chapter X. First Ascent of the River Uaupés
- Chapter XI. On the Rio Negro
- Chapter XII. The Cataracts of the Uaupés
- Chapter XIII. São Jeronymo to the Downs
- Chapter XIV. The Physical Geography and Geology of the Amazon Valley
- Chapter XV. Vegetation of the Amazon Valley
- Chapter XVI. Observations on the Zoology of the Amazon District
- Chapter XVII. On the Aborigines of the Amazon
- Appendix: On Amazonian Picture-Writing.
- Notes:
- First published in London, 1853, under title: A narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro.
- Frontispiece portrait has tissue guard.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy has large card of bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank laid in.
- Kislak copy has [2] pages of the publisher's advertisements for The Minerva Library at end.
- OCLC:
- 185063502
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