Download or read book Recollections of an Ill fated Expedition to the Headwaters of the Madeira River in Brazil written by Neville B. Craig and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book RECOLLECTIONS OF AN ILL FATED EXPEDITION written by NEVILLE B. CRAIG and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recollections of an Ill fated Expedition to the Headwaters of the Madeira River in Brazil written by Neville B. Craig and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recollections of an Ill Fated Expedition written by Neville B. Craig and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Recollections of an Ill-Fated Expedition: To the Headwaters of the Madeira River in Brazil For many years past it has been customary for an organization, known as the Madeira and Mamore Association, to hold an annual reunion at one of the leading hotels in Philadelphia. The participants were persons who, in the year 1878, had gone to Brazil under the leadership of two firms of American contractors - P. 85 T. Collins and Mackie, Scott 85 Co. - for the purpose of constructing a railway around the falls and rapids of the upper Madeira River and establishing steamboat lines above and below the obstructions; so as to form, in connec tion with ocean steamships plying between New York and Brazilian seaports, one great system of inter national transportation, intended to produce a rapid development of all that vast and fertile territory drained by the Amazon and establish direct communi cation between the United States and interior Bolivia. 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 Recollections of an Ill fated Expedition to the Headwaters of the Madeira River in Brazil By N B Craig in Co peration with Members of the Madeira and Mamor Association of Philadelphia With Plates Including Maps written by Neville B. CRAIG (of the Madeira and Mamoré Association.) and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recollections of an Ill Fated Expedition to the Headwaters of the Madeira River in Brazil Primary Source Edition written by Neville B. Craig and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book Recollections of an Ill fated Expedition to the Headwaters of the Madeira River in Brazil by Neville B Craig in Co peration with Members of the Madeira and Mamor Association of Philadelphia written by Neville B. Craig and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recollections of an Ill fated Expedition to the Headwaters of the Madeira River in Brazil written by Neville B. Craig and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Mapping the Amazon written by Amanda M. Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the political and ecological consequences of charting the Amazon River basin in narrative fiction, Mapping the Amazon examines how widely read novels from twentieth-century South America attempted to map the region for readers. Authors such as Jos� Eustasio Rivera, R�mulo Gallegos, Mario Vargas Llosa, C�sar Calvo, M�rcio Souza, and M�rio de Andrade traveled to the Amazonian regions of their respective countries and encountered firsthand a forest divided and despoiled by the spatial logic of extractivism. Writing against that logic, they fill their novels with geographic, human, and ecological realities omitted from official accounts of the region. Though the plots unfold after the height of the Amazonian rubber boom (1850-1920), the authors construct landscapes marked by that first large-scale exploitation of Amazonian biodiversity. The material practices of rubber extraction repeat in the stories told about the removal of other plants, seeds, and mineral from the forest as well as its conversion into farmland. The counter-discursive impulse of each novel comes into dialogue with various modernizing projects that carve Amazonia into cultural and economic spaces: border commissions, extractive infrastructure, school geography manuals, Indigenous education programs, and touristic propaganda. Even the novel maps studied have blind spots, though, and Mapping the Amazon considers the legacy of such unintentional omissions today.
Download or read book Brazilian Railway Culture written by Martin Cooper and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazilian Railway Culture examines the cultural relationship Brazil has had with its railways since tracks were first laid by British, American and French engineers in the nineteenth century. ‘Railway’ and ‘Brazil’ are words not often found in the same sentence. Yet each year over seven hundred million passengers are carried by train in the major urban centres, and tens of thousands of visitors enjoy heritage steam rides at over a dozen restored lines and museums. Brazilian Railway Culture starts from the premise that Brazilian society and culture is not just samba, football and sex. The book takes a journey through Brazilian cultural output from 1865 to the present day, examining novels, poetry, music, art, film and television, as well as autobiographies, written histories, and museums to uncover ways in which the railway has been represented. This interdisciplinary study engages with theories of informal empire and postcolonialism, Latin American studies, cultural studies, film and television studies, literary criticism, art history and criticism, museum and heritage studies, as well as railway studies. This is a supplementary text for use by students on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. It will also be of interest to academics, researchers, and railway historians across a range of disciplines.
Download or read book Railway Economics written by Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics and published by Chicago, University Press [1912]. This book was released on 1912 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tree of Rivers The Story of the Amazon written by John Hemming and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In his long career of exploration and scholarship, Hemming has become a powerful advocate for the Amazon.”—The New York Times, John Hemming Amazonia is one of the most magnificent habitats on earth. Containing the world’s largest river, with more water and a broader basin than any other, it hosts a great expanse of tropical rain forest, home to the planet’s most luxuriant biological diversity. The human beings who settled in the region 10,000 years ago learned to live well with its bounty of fish, game, and vegetation. It was not until 1500 that Europeans first saw the Amazon, and, unsurprisingly, the rain forest’s unique environment has attracted larger-than-life personalities through the centuries. John Hemming recalls the adventures and misadventures of intrepid explorers, fervent Jesuit ecclesiastics, and greedy rubber barons who enslaved thousands of Indians in the relentless quest for profit. He also tells of nineteenth-century botanists, fearless advocates for Indian rights, and the archaeologists and anthropologists who have uncovered the secrets of the Amazon’s earliest settlers. Hemming discusses the current threat to Amazonia as forests are destroyed to feed the world’s appetite for timber, beef, and soybeans, and he vividly describes the passionate struggles taking place in order to utilize, protect, and understand the Amazon.
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of U S Latin American Relations written by Thomas Leonard and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No previous work has covered the web of important players, places, and events that have shaped the history of the United States’ relations with its neighbors to the south. From the Monroe Doctrine through today’s tensions with Latin America’s new leftist governments, this history is rich in case studies of diplomatic, economic, and military cooperation and contentiousness. Encyclopedia of U.S.-Latin American Relations is a comprehensive, three-volume, A-to-Z reference featuring more than 800 entries detailing the political, economic, and military interconnections between the United States and the countries of Latin America, including Mexico and the nations in Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. Entries cover: Each country and its relationship with the United States Key politicians, diplomats, and revolutionaries in each country Wars, conflicts, and other events Policies and treaties Organizations central to the political and diplomatic history of the western hemisphere Key topics covered include: Coups and terrorist organizations U.S. military interventions in the Caribbean Mexican-American War The Cold War, communism, and dictators The war on drugs in Latin America Panama Canal Embargo on Cuba Pan-Americanism and Inter-American conferences The role of commodities like coffee, bananas, copper, and oil "Big Stick" and Good Neighbor policies Impact of religion in U.S.-Latin American relations Neoliberal economic development model U.S. Presidents from John Quincy Adams to Barack Obama Latin American leaders from Simon Bolivar to Hugo Chavez With expansive coverage of more than 200 years of important and fascinating events, this new work will serve as an important addition to the collections of academic, public, and school libraries serving students and researchers interested in U.S. history and diplomacy, Latin American studies, international relations, and current events.
