Author: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN: 1630833207
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Jeff’s Uncle Roy runs a museum and is always zooming off to strange places. Now Uncle Roy is taking Jeff with him to the steamy Amazon jungle. Maybe they’ll track down crocodiles or poisonous snakes or jaguars for Uncle Roy’s museum. Wrong! On this trip, Uncle Roy is looking for . . . butterflies. Butterflies?
Amazon Fever
Author: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN: 1630833207
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Jeff’s Uncle Roy runs a museum and is always zooming off to strange places. Now Uncle Roy is taking Jeff with him to the steamy Amazon jungle. Maybe they’ll track down crocodiles or poisonous snakes or jaguars for Uncle Roy’s museum. Wrong! On this trip, Uncle Roy is looking for . . . butterflies. Butterflies?
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN: 1630833207
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Jeff’s Uncle Roy runs a museum and is always zooming off to strange places. Now Uncle Roy is taking Jeff with him to the steamy Amazon jungle. Maybe they’ll track down crocodiles or poisonous snakes or jaguars for Uncle Roy’s museum. Wrong! On this trip, Uncle Roy is looking for . . . butterflies. Butterflies?
Pennsylvania's Amazon Princess Railroad
Author: William Lawrence Adams
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1481773542
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
The Republic of Bolivia, as it existed prior to the termination of the war with Chile in 1882, had an area of 597,271 square miles, exclusive of the territory of El Chaco, claimed alike by Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina. The population, though never carefully determined, was estimated by the best Bolivian authorities as two and a half million, and of this, about half consisted of savage and domesticated Indians. In other words, a population about equal to that of the State of Massachusetts occupied a territory three and a half times greater in area than that covered by our ten New England and Middle States combined. During the colonial days of South America, Bolivia was a part of Peru, having been subdued and annexed by Hernando, a brother of Francisco Pizarro, and in 1559, it was formed into the Audiencia of Charcas, or Upper Peru. "The haughtiest of all the old Spanish Conquistadores," says a prominent writer, "settled in the country and clustered their titled families around its ten thousand open silver-mines." slogan: Keep Faith in Self and, Have Fun Trying W. L. "Gunny" ADAMS
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1481773542
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
The Republic of Bolivia, as it existed prior to the termination of the war with Chile in 1882, had an area of 597,271 square miles, exclusive of the territory of El Chaco, claimed alike by Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina. The population, though never carefully determined, was estimated by the best Bolivian authorities as two and a half million, and of this, about half consisted of savage and domesticated Indians. In other words, a population about equal to that of the State of Massachusetts occupied a territory three and a half times greater in area than that covered by our ten New England and Middle States combined. During the colonial days of South America, Bolivia was a part of Peru, having been subdued and annexed by Hernando, a brother of Francisco Pizarro, and in 1559, it was formed into the Audiencia of Charcas, or Upper Peru. "The haughtiest of all the old Spanish Conquistadores," says a prominent writer, "settled in the country and clustered their titled families around its ten thousand open silver-mines." slogan: Keep Faith in Self and, Have Fun Trying W. L. "Gunny" ADAMS
In the Amazon Jungle
Author: Algot Lange
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazonas (Brazil)
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazonas (Brazil)
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Amazon
Author: Roger Harris
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN: 9781841621739
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This new edition has been completely revised with updated information on hotels, lodges and tour operators. It contains a detailed and illustrated natural history section on native species and habitats. The Amazon is an ideal location for eco-travellers, naturalists, sports enthusiasts and explorers. Travellers are given sound advice on responsible travel and planning their own expedition.
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN: 9781841621739
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This new edition has been completely revised with updated information on hotels, lodges and tour operators. It contains a detailed and illustrated natural history section on native species and habitats. The Amazon is an ideal location for eco-travellers, naturalists, sports enthusiasts and explorers. Travellers are given sound advice on responsible travel and planning their own expedition.
Indigenous Agency in the Amazon
Author: Gary Van Valen
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816521182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Indigenous Agency in the Amazon explores the underexamined story of indigenous people who accepted Jesuit mission life and then, nearly two centuries later, withstood the challenges of the rubber boom and the imposition of European liberalism.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816521182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Indigenous Agency in the Amazon explores the underexamined story of indigenous people who accepted Jesuit mission life and then, nearly two centuries later, withstood the challenges of the rubber boom and the imposition of European liberalism.
Medical Report of the Hamilton Rice Seventh Expedition to the Amazon, in Conjunction with the Department of Tropical Medicine of Harvard University, 1924-1925
Author: Richard Pearson Strong
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beneficial insects
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beneficial insects
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro
Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The Rubber Country of the Amazon
Author: Henry Clemens Pearson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A detailed description of the great rubber industry of the Amazon Valley, which comprises the Brazilian States of Pará, Amazonas and Matto Grosso, the Territory of the Acre, the Montaña of Peru and Bolivia, and the Southern portions of Colombia and Venezuela.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A detailed description of the great rubber industry of the Amazon Valley, which comprises the Brazilian States of Pará, Amazonas and Matto Grosso, the Territory of the Acre, the Montaña of Peru and Bolivia, and the Southern portions of Colombia and Venezuela.
English and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon, 1550–1646
Author: Joyce Lorimer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317143221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
From as early as the middle of the 16th century Englishmen were interested in the possibility of exploring the fabled resources of the great river of the Amazons. During the first half of the 17th century English and Irish projectors made persistent efforts to maintain trading factories and plantation there. From at least 1612 to 1632 they inhabited settlements along the north channel of the estuary from Cabo do Norte to the Equator, making very considerable profits from tobacco, dyes and hardwoods. The profitability of their holdings was such that, when the Portuguese made the river too risky for foreign interlopers after 1630, former English and Irish planters sought to return there under licence of first the Spanish and then the Portuguese crown. The Irish may actually have been permitted to do so in the mid-1640s. Almost half a century has elapsed since J.A. Williamson and Aubrey Gwynne first published studies of these colonies. New material from English, Portuguese and Spanish archives has now made it possible to re-evaluate their significance. The Irish ventures, although begun in partnership with the English, can now be seen to have developed into a quite distinct initiative. They are probably the earliest example of independent Irish colonial projects in the New World. By the early 1620s the Irish were known for their experience of the river and their expertise in Indian languages, proving far more efficient in their approach to exploiting Amazonia than the English. The tenacity with which both groups, the English and the Irish, pursued their goal of settlement also forces us to re-assess assumptions about the seemingly 'inevitable' priority of North America for such activity in this period. The Amazon undertakings were in many ways more hopeful than contemporaneous enterprises in North America. They failed because their interests were sacrificed, at critical junctures, to the foreign policy priorities of the English crown, not because the Amazon was an unsuitable environment for northern Europeans.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317143221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
From as early as the middle of the 16th century Englishmen were interested in the possibility of exploring the fabled resources of the great river of the Amazons. During the first half of the 17th century English and Irish projectors made persistent efforts to maintain trading factories and plantation there. From at least 1612 to 1632 they inhabited settlements along the north channel of the estuary from Cabo do Norte to the Equator, making very considerable profits from tobacco, dyes and hardwoods. The profitability of their holdings was such that, when the Portuguese made the river too risky for foreign interlopers after 1630, former English and Irish planters sought to return there under licence of first the Spanish and then the Portuguese crown. The Irish may actually have been permitted to do so in the mid-1640s. Almost half a century has elapsed since J.A. Williamson and Aubrey Gwynne first published studies of these colonies. New material from English, Portuguese and Spanish archives has now made it possible to re-evaluate their significance. The Irish ventures, although begun in partnership with the English, can now be seen to have developed into a quite distinct initiative. They are probably the earliest example of independent Irish colonial projects in the New World. By the early 1620s the Irish were known for their experience of the river and their expertise in Indian languages, proving far more efficient in their approach to exploiting Amazonia than the English. The tenacity with which both groups, the English and the Irish, pursued their goal of settlement also forces us to re-assess assumptions about the seemingly 'inevitable' priority of North America for such activity in this period. The Amazon undertakings were in many ways more hopeful than contemporaneous enterprises in North America. They failed because their interests were sacrificed, at critical junctures, to the foreign policy priorities of the English crown, not because the Amazon was an unsuitable environment for northern Europeans.
Travels on the Amazon
Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description