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Smyth, Lieutenant W., And F. Lowe

Narrative of a Journey from Lima to Para, across the Andes and down the Amazon: Undertaken with a View of Ascertaining the Practicability of a Navigable Communication with the Atlantic, by the Rivers Pachitea, Ucayali, and Amazon

1973

107,16 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1973
Lieu d'édition
Boston. Milford House
Auteur
Smyth, Lieutenant W., And F. Lowe
Thème
Travel - South America
Langues
Anglais

Description

8vo [21.5 x 14 cm]; viii, 305 pp, 10 plates (complete), 2 maps, title page vignette, additional map added. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, slightly rubbed, clean, very good, sound and tight copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. An unabridged reprint of the first edition (see Naylor 115. Palau 315283. Sabin 85346. Welch 213.) Goodman 588: 'The narrative of two British naval officers who made the journey to investigate the feasibility of the Amazon route as an outlet of the products of the interior'. With much on the indigenous peoples, conditions, mines, agriculture, customs, rivers, living conditions, wildlife, etc. The two maps called for at the end of the1836 edition were replaced with a reprint of a map of Chili from the Blaeu atlas of 1640. This is the case for all copies of this edition, making this copy complete.

Edizione: first american edition, original edition was london, pub. by john murray, 1836.