Sir Henry Alexander Wickham (1846-1928) is remembered for his role in bringing the seeds of the rubber tree in 1876 from Brazil to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, where seedlings were successfully cultivated and then sent to Asia for the establishment of commercial plantations. Wickham later styled his actions in collecting some 70,000 seeds as a tale of botanical smuggling, though at the time such action was not illegal. Skilled as a self-publicist, he enjoyed the great acclaim of the rubber industry as it burgeoned in British colonies abroad. This account, first published in 1872, is of Wickham's earlier travels in South America. The first part of the work traces his journey by river into the continent, recording his observations on rubber cultivation in Brazil. The second part describes his time among the indigenous peoples who lived on the Caribbean coast of Central America.

Title: Rough Notes of a Journey through the Wilderness, from Trinidad to Para, Brazil, by way of the great cataracts of the Orinoco, Atabapo, and Rio Negro. ... With illustrations, etc. Report on the industrial classes in the Provinces of Para and Amazonas, Brazil, by J. de V. Drummond Hay.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection provides histories and analyses of society, culture, education, crime, and family life. Providing a unique perspective of everyday life in the 18th and 19th centuries, readers of these works can study earlier developments that formed our modern society.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Wickham, Sir Henry Alexander 1872 8 . 10481.ee.18.

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Subtitle: From Trinidad to Para,? Brazil, by Way of the Great Cataracts of the Orinoco, Atabapo, and Rio Negro General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1872 Original Publisher: W. H. J. Carter Subjects: Venezuela Brazil Orinoco River (Venezuela and Colombia) Rio Negro (Amazonas, Brazil) Indians of Central America History / Latin America / Central America History / Latin America / South America History / Americas Social Science / Archaeology Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. August Gth. -- I took the steering paddle, and started, with Rogers, Watkins, and an Indian, for the Rio Negro. Watkins and Rogers were in great spirits, and I, of course, did not dwell much upon the impending difficulties of the way. Seiior Dalla Costa gave me letters to the governor of Amazonas, as the Venezuelans call their south-west frontier district. As it was the starting day, we paddled only to about the distance of ten miles above the town, and there camped. The rain was nearly at its highest, and in consequence the current was very strong. Tth. -- This morning we had been travelling quite among the tree-tops and wild calabash bushes, as the lowlands were under water. We camped by three o'clock; found plenty of iguana in the trees. I now began to see that I was fortunate in my Indian (Ramon); he worked willingly and well, and, in his Indian way, did things quietly, without my having to remind him of them. Sth. -- Sunday in camp. The woods had much improved since the rains; everything therein was now green and graceful. On the side of the stony hill behind our camp were many of the trailingcacti, bearing plenty of their pl...