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A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro

First published: 1853
Pages: 372

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Preface and Chapter I
31:27
Chapter II
52:50
Chapter III
51:53
Chapter IV
48:53
Chapter V
35:32
Chapter VI
47:49
Chapter VII
49:53
Chapter VIII
60:34
Chapter IX
68:12
Chapter X
71:14
Chapter XI
40:48
Chapter XII
46:53
Chapter XIII
54:38
Chapter XIV
46:14
Chapter XV
22:25
Chapter XVI
49:00
Chapter XVII
70:36
Appendix
7:23
Remarks on the Vocabularies, by RG Latham MD
34:25

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Alfred Russel Wallace spent four years on the Amazon and the Rio Negro from 1848, collecting specimens, sketching river systems, and recording the languages and customs of the people who lived along them. On the voyage home his ship caught fire and sank, taking most of his collections and notes with it, so much of this account had to be rebuilt from memory and the few papers he saved. What survives is a young naturalist's field record: climate and geology, palms and fish and butterflies, and the practical business of getting up a river in a small boat with almost no money. The thinking here later fed his independent theory of natural selection. Free to read as a PDF or EPUB.

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Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 to 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, and biologist who co-discovered the principle of evolution by natural selection. His years of fieldwork in the Amazon and the Malay Archipelago made him one of the leading scientists of the Victorian era.