Download or read book Along the Andes Classic Reprint written by A. Petrocokino and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Along the Andes Besides the nitrate found all along the line, rich copper ore is dug out of the mountains, as in the time of the Incas, and sent down by rail to the coast. In working on the old mines Indian stone hammers are often come across, and recently the petrified body of an entombed Indian was dis covered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
Download or read book Across the Andes Classic Reprint written by Charles Johnson Post and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Across the Andes Rubber or gold - the game is old, The lust and lure and venture; And the trails gleam white in the tropic night Where the restless Spirits mould; A vine-tied cross 'neath the festooned moss, Bones in a matting rolled; No wrong or right, the loss is slight, The world-old fooled of gold. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
Download or read book Along the Andes and Down the Amazon Classic Reprint written by H. J. Mozanz and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Along the Andes and Down the Amazon Peon 's home in the tropical belt of Ecuador Indian village in the highlands of Ecuador Astronomical Observatory, Quito Summit of Chimborazo as seen from the plateau. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
Download or read book New Granada written by Isaac F. Holton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New Granada: Twenty Months in the Andes The author claims of the publishers the right to make one more acknowledgment of obligation, and that is to themselves. The liberality with which they have acceded to every wish of his, involving outlays far beyond what was at first intended, is one of the most pleasing circumstances in the retrospect of the long and unremitted toil this day concluded. And if succeed ing travelers shall find in the book that aid which the writer sought in vain, and the philanthropist shall feel his best sympa thies aroused for one of the most liberal and free nations on the face of the globe, that toil will not be unrewarded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
Download or read book The Rover of the Andes written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Rover of the Andes: A Tale of Adventure in South America This book requires no preface. I therefore con tent myself with saying that its facts and descrip tions have been gathered from the most reliable sources of information on South America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
Download or read book Over the Andes From the Argentine to Chili and Peru Classic Reprint written by May Crommelin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Over the Andes From the Argentine to Chili and Peru At last one night a launch came alongside, bring ing various husbands and brothers to greet their families, and also the glad news that we were allowed to land next morning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
Download or read book The Andes and the Amazon written by James Orton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by James Orton, a Professor of Natural History at Vassar College in New York State, The Andes and the Amazon, or Across the Continent of South America tells the tale of the author's exploration of the continent in 1867. Now republished by Forgotten Book, this book provides the reader with one man's take on South America and its people. The book opens with a brief introduction, which states, "In this century one can almost count upon his hand the travelers who have written of their journeys in this unknown region." The book is divided into chapters, each of which focuses on a different facet of South America. There are chapters on the city and people of Guayaquil, an account of climbing the Andes, the country of Ecuador and in particular Quito, traversing the Amazon and the fantastic wildlife of the great river, and more. The book concludes with a brief guide for readers on how to travel in South America, including the most popular routes and the necessary precautions to take. The Andes and the Amazon is clearly a product of a specific time period. The author and his attitudes can occasionally be interpreted as racist. Orton's tone not withstanding, this is an interesting account of an early exploration of South America. The author does an admirable job describing the flora and fauna of the region, and certainly respects the beautiful natural terrain of the continent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
Download or read book FA HN IN THE ANDES CLASSIC REPRINT written by WILLIAM MORRIS. DAVIS and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys written by Francis Bond Head and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys: Across the Pampas and Among the Andes Had we known the nature of the different countries, it Would have been deemed im prudent -to have forwarded to them expen sive machinery, to have given liberal sala ries to every individual connected with'the Speculation, to have invited the Natives to share the profits, to have intrusted the Capi tal to solitary individuals, 8m. Still had the Foundation been good, the Building was nobly planned, and it was undeniably the act and' the invention of a country teeming with energy, enterprise, liberality, nusus pecting confidence, and capital. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
Download or read book Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator Classic Reprint written by Edward Whymper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels Amongst the Great Andes, of the Equator The most opposite statements and opinions have been advanced concerning this matter. The extremes range from saying that fatal results may occur, and have occurred, from some obscure cause, at comparatively moderate elevations, down to that no effects whatever have been experienced at the greatest heights which have been attained. Allegations of the latter class may be set aside for the present, for the evidence is overwhelming that, from 14 000 feet above the level of the sea and upwards, serious inconveniences have occurred; that prostration (amounting in the more extreme cases to incapacitation) has been experienced; and that, in some instances, perhaps, even death has resulted through some cause which operates at great elevations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
Download or read book The King Condor of the Andes Classic Reprint written by Elliott Whitney and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Last Rambles Amongst the Indians of the Rocky Mountains and the Andes Classic Reprint written by George Catlin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Last Rambles Amongst the Indians of the Rocky Mountains and the Andes Without the first volume, the reading of this will be like coming in at the play at the end of the second or third act the plot will be misunderstood, as the great and warlike and picturesque tribes of the prairies, the Sioux, the Comanches, the Osages, the Pawnees, &c., and their noble sports in the chase, and the stories of the Kettle of Gold, and the Old sawmill-lick, with Darrow, and yolmzzy o'neil, &c;, will all be lost; and much. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
Download or read book The Gilded Man written by Clifford Smyth and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Gilded Man: A Romance of the Andes Two dreams have persistently haunted the imagination of man since dreams began. You find them in all mythologies, and, perhaps most dramatically, in the Arabian Nights: the dream of the Water of Immortality, and the dream of the Golden City. Within recent times - that is, during the sixteenth century - both were lifted out of the region of fairy lore, and men as far from "dreamers," in the ordinary sense, as the "conquistador" Ponce de Leon and Sir Walter Raleigh raised them into the sphere of something like Elizabethan practical politics. Whether or not Ponce de Leon did actually discover the Fountain of Eternal Youth on the Bimini Islands concerns us but incidentally here. At all events, he seems to have died without drinking of it; as death on the scaffold was the penalty for Raleigh's failure to discover El Dorado. So practically had the courts of Elizabeth and James regarded the dream of the Golden City, and so firm had been Raleigh's own belief in it. Though Raleigh's name is most conspicuously and tragically connected with it, of course it had been Spanish adventurers for several generations before - exploring that "Spanish Main" which they had already, and in romance forever, made their own - who had given that dream its local habitation and its name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
Download or read book The Temple of the Andes Classic Reprint written by Richard Inwards and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Temple of the Andes History of the Conquest of Peru, by William H. Prescott.at least a thousand-fold their own, forced their way in, carrying with them the Spanish Flag and the Cross, signals which were unhappily to be followed by unnumbered woes and scourges to the simple people who had so long dwelt in calm behind their mountains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
Download or read book Between the Andes and the Ocean Classic Reprint written by William Eleroy Curtis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Between the Andes and the Ocean It would be a great thing for the Mississippi Valley to have a line of steamers from New Orleans to the isthmus. Most of the freight in the hold of the good ship Finance that brought us down originated west of the Allegheny mountains. It should have gone to its market on longitudinal lines. The voyage from New York is delightful. People always expect a little weather Off Cape Hatteras, but the captain of our ship said that was a popular delusion. He declared that Hatteras has no more storms than any other point on the earth's surface. The land projects into the Atlantic and makes nasty sailing along that coast in bad weather, and there have been terrible disasters from time to time; therefore, Captain Sukeforth says that Cape Hatteras has unjustly got a bad name. He has been sailing this course for a number Of years - I have forgotten how many - and declares that he has never met with a gale in the latitude of Hatteras. The severe weather of Hatteras is also due to the fact that it lies in the track of what are called the southwest storms; that is, storms that advance from the southwest and move northeastward. They are called northeasters on the Atlantic coast and are the severest Of storms. Hatteras is in their direct path, just as Chicago is in the direct path of storms that advance from the West, and very near the path of all the storms that come down from the northwest. Taking the wind velocity for a month, Chicago exceeds Hatteras by about miles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
Download or read book The Secret of the Andes written by F. Hassaurek and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Secret of the Andes: A Romance This is Moorish steel, said the Count, examining the weapon with the eye of a connoisseur, of excellent temper and approved fashion. How could it fall into the hands of an Indian? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
Download or read book Miracle in the Andes written by Nando Parrado and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes—and one man’s quest to lead them all home—now in a special edition for 2022, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the crash, featuring a new introduction by the author “In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took—and what it actually felt like—to survive high in the Andes for seventy-two days after having been given up for dead.”—Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild “In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.” Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team to Chile had crashed deep in the Andes, killing many of his teammates, his mother, and his sister. Stranded with the few remaining survivors on a lifeless glacier and thinking constantly of his father’s grief, Parrado resolved that he could not simply wait to die. So Parrado, an ordinary young man with no particular disposition for leadership or heroism, led an expedition up the treacherous slopes of a snowcapped mountain and across forty-five miles of frozen wilderness in an attempt to save his friends’ lives as well as his own. Decades after the disaster, Parrado tells his story with remarkable candor and depth of feeling. Miracle in the Andes, a first-person account of the crash and its aftermath, is more than a riveting tale of true-life adventure; it is a revealing look at life at the edge of death and a meditation on the limitless redemptive power of love.
