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 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 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 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 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 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 Along the Andes and Down the Amazon Classic Reprint written by H. J. Mozanz and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Along the Andes and Down the Amazon "The exploits of the conquistadores of America were so stupendous, so fabulous, that no epic could do them justice, no narrative, however faithful, complete or masterly, could portray the reality. It is necessary to have been born and to have lived a long time in America and to know the Andes, the deserts, the forests, the rivers, the morasses, the coasts, the climates, of this part of the world, where everything is colossal; to compare the formidable obstacles, which still exist, with the far greater ones overcome by the Spaniards, in order to form an adequate idea of the prodigious daring, heroism and inflexibility of the conquistadores. All the impetuosity of the conqueror of the Moor, the indomitable tenacity of the Arragonese, the patient and silent constancy of the Castilian, who fought and died with a jest on his lips, the vehement curiosity and passion of the Andalusian, the cold and calculating perseverance of the Catalonian and the Basque, were exhibited in that struggle of a handful of Titans engaged in the conquest of a world of exuberant heat and life, force and majesty, riches and population, novelty and marvels... In that epoch all was great, the good and the bad, iniquity and virtue, force and resistance, but the greatness of force was in man while that of resistance was in nature." Jose M. Samper, Ensayo sobre las Revoluciones, Cap. I. 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 Journal of a Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic Crossing the Andes in the Northern Provinces of Peru and Descending the River Maranon Or Amazon Classic Reprint written by Henry Lister Maw and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Journal of a Passage From the Pacific to the Atlantic, Crossing the Andes in the Northern Provinces of Peru, and Descending the River Maranon, or Amazon This gentleman accompanied me to Eng land, complying readily with such requests as I thought necessary to make during the pas sage, and afforded me such assistance as is most valuable, and, perhaps, most esteemed. 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 2017-12-04 with total page 528 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 Over the Andes Our Boys in New South America written by Hezekiah Butterworth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Over the Andes, Our Boys in New South America: A Tale of Travel and Adventure In 1895 the writer made a journey from Southampton, England, to Buenos Ayres, and crossed the Cordillera by the Transandine railroad and by mule, and visited the port cities on the west coast, studying all available sources of information in regard to the prospects of these developing countries, that several thoughtful writers have prophesied will one day rival the ancient nations of the world. We have been asked to give a view of what we saw and learned in a narrative lighted with historical incidents, stories, anecdotes, and pictures, in such a way as to interest the reader to seek larger information in historical and scientific works. This we have aimed to do. Since their independence, many of the Republics of the Sun have had a dramatic history. Their material progress has been associated with North American enterprise. To the antiquarian the equatorial regions must ever be interesting, and to the naturalist the Gran Chaco is a wonderland. 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 Narrative of a Journey Across the Cordillera of the Andes written by Robert Proctor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Narrative of a Journey Across the Cordillera of the Andes: And of a Residence in Lima, and Other Parts of Peru, in the Years 1823 and 1824 Its imperfections an apology is perhaps due, if indeed he ought not to provide himself with an excuse for making a book at all, considering his ignorance of the art. A few unimportant errors have crept in, be cause the author was unable to superin tend the passage of the sheets through the press, and for these the printer is in no way. 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 C. Reginald Enock and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Andes and the Amazon: Life and Travel in Peru Peru is a country covered with a certain halo of romance - the romance of history; of that time when continents were found, taken, and explored; the romance of a civilised and little-known race-the Inca- extending back before the keels of those old caravels from Europe ploughed the seas of the New World; the romance of the Spaniards, picturesque and cruel; the romance of Nature in her most stupendous operations, her Andean and Amazonian handiwork. The true traveller must not banish the natural sentiment of such portentous matters from his vision. It is not a sentiment which will render it opaque, but is rather the stimulus of imagination, which directs his steps and urges his pen and pencil to the portraying of the things which pass before his senses. Moreover, the true traveller must be an Universalist. That is, he must see the good of things, the good which penetrates everything in conjunction with, or in superior relation to, the so palpable evil of Man and Circumstance. The bare wilderness and the poor Indian have some use and intrinsic value, as well as the cultivated valley and the civilised dweller of the cities. Loyal to Nature and the universe of which he. is a part, the traveller and observer will be an impartial judge; he will ever refrain from "drawing up an indictment against a whole nation," or from hastily condemning any existing thing. 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 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 Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Gilded Man: A Romance of the Andes United States consul at Carthagena, that unspoiled haunt ed city oi the Spanish Main, which, it may be recalled. 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.
