THE ATHENAEUMA Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio NegroAlfred Russel Wallace
Natural History
A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textWallace went to the Amazon in 1848 with Henry Walter Bates and spent four years there collecting. On the voyage home the ship caught fire and sank with almost all his specimens and notes, and he spent ten days in an open boat. He wrote this book from what he had saved and remembered.
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- Reading time
- About 10 hr 30 min
- Where to find it
- The Naturalist’s Cabinet
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #71436. In the public domain in the United States.