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Narrative of a Journey from Lima to Para, across the Andes and down the Amazon - Undertaken with a View of Ascertaining the Practicability of a Navigable Communication with the Atlantic, by the Rivers Pachitea, Ucayali, and Amazon (Paperback)
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Narrative of a Journey from Lima to Para, across the Andes and down the Amazon - Undertaken with a View of Ascertaining the Practicability of a Navigable Communication with the Atlantic, by the Rivers Pachitea, Ucayali, and Amazon (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Latin American Studies
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During 1834 5 the British naval officer and artist William Smyth
(1800 77) and his fellow officer Frederick Lowe (1811 47) went on
an expedition to Peru and North-Eastern Brazil. This account of
their journey, first published in 1836, combines a travel narrative
with anthropological observation. Their objective was to explore
the river Pachitea in Peru and investigate its potential as a route
from the Andes via the Amazon to the Atlantic Ocean that could
reduce journey times and benefit Peruvian exports. The tone of the
book is typical of early nineteenth-century European travel
literature, in that it shows the authors to have been fascinated by
the cultures they encountered while retaining a deep mistrust of
the indigenous 'savages' some of whom were held to be 'cannibals'.
It is, however, full of fascinating details about the rainforest
and its inhabitants, the colonial settlers, and their interactions.
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