On 9th August 2010, Ed Stafford became the first person ever to walk the entire length of the Amazon river. This text takes readers on his daring journey along the world's greatest river and through the most bio-diverse habitat on earth.
In the eight pieces that make up Land Without History, first published in Portuguese in 1909, Euclides da Cunha offers a rare look into twentieth century Amazonia, and the consolidation of South American nation states. Mixing scientific jargon and poetic language, the essays in …
Features eight essays by Euclides da Cunha, about his trip through the Amazonin 1905, written to describe the Brazilian hinterlands to the urban citizens.
Experiencias del viaje realizado por Gaetano Osculati, aventurero italiano amante de las ciencias naturales, quien realizó una peregrinación terrestre y fluvial por las regiones ecuatoriales a lo largo de los ríos Napo y Amazonas.