Author:
ROOSEVELT Theodore
Title:
Through The Brazilian Wilderness
Price:
£95.00
Year:
1914
Edition:
1st English Edn,
Publisher:
John Murray
Summary:
274 pages, Top edge gilt, illustrated with frontis and 48 plates from photograph by Kermitt Roosevelt and other members of the expedition and 2 maps one is folding. Armorial bookplate of L.de Rothchild to the front paste down. Publishers red cloth gilt title to the upper cover the spine with gilt title and Jaguar vignette on a pedestal to the spine. A near fine copy the cloth clean and bright with no defects. Roosevelt's 'zoogeographic reconnaissance' with the Brazilian explorer Rondon to discover if the Rio da D?vida ('River of Doubt'), flowed into the Amazon. Traversing some of the most dangerous territory of Amazon, the travellers observed wildlife, and had some big game hunting, for Jaguar, deer, tapir, capybara etc. Published the same year as the American edition.
Ref:
23818
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