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Through Five Republics on Horseback (Paperback)
Loot Price: R484
Discovery Miles 4 840
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Through Five Republics on Horseback (Paperback)
Series: Cosimo Classics. Travel & Exploration
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Loot Price R484
Discovery Miles 4 840
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That I have been able to penetrate into part of [South America's]
unexplored interior, and visit tribes of people hitherto untouched
and unknown, was urged as sufficient reason for the publishing of
this work. In perils oft, through hunger and thirst and fever,
consequent on the many wanderings in unhealthy climes herein
recorded, the writer has also had many pleasant as well as strange
experiences. -from the Preface He was a Fellow of the Royal
Geographic Society, the "Livingstone of South America," and
"Official Explorer for the Bolivian Government.,." a title he
wrangled for himself. A real-life Indiana Jones and sometime
missionary, George Whitfield Ray landed in Bolivia in 1889, the
first of many trips across "the darkest land" of South America,
though Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, and Uruguay. In this
reproduction of the twenty-fifth edition of his wildly popular
adventures, Ray regales us with his own derring-do -- whether he's
coming face to face with angry crocodiles over raging rivers,
attending audiences with tribal kings in remote villages, coming
under attack by vampire bats, or reveling at gaudy street festivals
in ancient cities, Ray's enthusiasm for his own audacity and
intrepidness is infectiously endearing.
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