Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 and 1824: With original instructions ... history (Oxford English memoirs and travels)

Waterton, Charles

Travel

Oxford University Press

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Wanderings in South America (Large Print Edition)

South America

BiblioLife

Wanderings in South America

Excerpt from Wanderings in South America: The North-West of the United States and the Antilles in the Years 1812, 1816, 1820 and 1824I offer this book of Wanderings with a hesitating hand. It has little merit, and must make its way through the world as well as it can. It will receive many a jostle as it goes along, and perhaps is destined to add one more to the number of Slain, in the field of modern criticism. But'if it fall, it may still, in death, be useful to me for, should some accidental rover take it up, and, in turning over its pages, imbibe the idea of going out to explore Guiana, in order to give the world an enlarged description of that noble coun try, I shall say, fortem ad fortia misi, and demand the armour; that is, I shall lay claim to a certain portion of the honours he will receive.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Wanderings in South America,: The North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 and 1824 (Latin American adventure series)

Charles Knight

Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States and the Antilles, in the Years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824

History

Americas

Legare Street Press

Although in the original preface to this work the British naturalist Charles Waterton (1782-1865) modestly says his book has 'little merit', his account is a rich description of his experiences in South America and the Caribbean. Waterton managed his family's sugar plantations in Demerara from 1804 to 1812, studied natural history, and later (1812-25) divided his time between the Americas and Europe. This book, originally published in 1825 and reissued here in its 1828 second edition, describes his four expeditions, beginning with his search deep in the rainforest for samples of the rare poison, curare. Waterton also recounts a fierce battle with the Maroons, but his main focus is zoology, including the capture of 'an enormous Coulacara snake', encounters with sloths, monkeys and vampire bats, and close observations of a huge variety of birds. The final chapter describes Waterton's methods of 'preserving birds for cabinets of natural history'.

Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the Years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824: With Original ... (Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology)

World

Cambridge University Press

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Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States and the Antilles

Cornell University Library

Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the Years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824

Travel Writing

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Essays on Natural History, Chiefly Ornithology

Europe

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