THE ATHENAEUMWanderings in South AmericaCharles Waterton
Natural History
Wanderings in South America
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textCharles Waterton, a Yorkshire squire, walked barefoot through the forests of Guiana in search of the curare poison, and once rode on the back of a cayman. Wanderings in South America, first published in 1825, is one of the strangest and most cheerful travel books in English. At home he walled his park and made it one of the first nature reserves.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 5 hr 40 min
- Where to find it
- The Naturalist’s Cabinet
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #8159. In the public domain in the United States.