The Flowing Road Adventuring on the Great, Rivers of South America (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Whitney, Caspar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330206444 ISBN 13: 9781330206447

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Flowing Road Adventuring on the Great, Rivers of South America The chapters in this volume are from the experience of five separate overland and river expeditions into South America, beginning in 1902. Largely these were by canoe, and chiefly on streams more or less connecting - hence the significance of the title - Flowing Road. They embraced a continuous journey from Santa Isabel, on the Rio Negro, in Brazil, to Ciudad Bolivar, on the Orinoco, in Venezuela; from San Fernando, on the Apure, to the head waters and return, of the Orinoco, via the Atabapo and the Casiquiare; down the Portuguesa, in Venezuela, the Apure and the Orinoco to its mouth; and on the Parana, the Salado and Feliciano rivers in Argentine. The saddle trips included crossing the llanos, which stretch between the Venezuelan north coast mountain range and the Orinoco on the south, and the llanos and the forest to the east of Lake Maracaibo; skirting the Cordilleras at the east of Colombia; across the Andes into Chile; and some penetration of the pampas of Argentine and the forests of Brazil. Incidental to getting to and from the frontier I sojourned for brief periods at a majority of the leading cities on the continent. In the far southeastern corner of Venezuela roam a native people whom common report of the country declares to be savage arid unknown. 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 histo

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330206444
• ISBN 13: 9781330206447
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392