In 1865, twenty-three-year-old William James began his studies
at the Harvard Medical School. When he learned that one of his most
esteemed professors, Louis Agassiz, then director of the recently
established Museum of Comparative Zoology, was preparing a research
expedition to Brazil, James offered his services as a voluntary
collector. Over the course of a year, James kept a diary, wrote
letters to his family, and sketched the plants, animals, and people
he observed. During this journey, James spent time primarily in Rio
de Janeiro, Belem, and Manaus, and along the rivers and tributaries
of the Amazon Basin.
This volume is a critical, bilingual (English-Portuguese)
edition of William James's diaries and letters and also includes
reproductions of his drawings. This original material belongs to
the Houghton Archives at Harvard University and is of great
interest to both William James scholars and Brazilian studies
experts.
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