Amazon River -- Description and travel books

Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.

Dard, Charlotte-Adelaïde; Brisson, Pierre-Raymond de; Godin des Odonais, Jean

The volume is a three‑part collection of true‑to‑life adventure narratives drawn from the late eighteenth‑…

The Andes and the Amazon; Or, Across the Continent of South America

James Orton

The work is a nineteenth‑century scientific travelogue that records a Smithsonian‑sponsored expedition across…

The Sea and the Jungle

H. M. Tomlinson