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Through Five Republics on Horseback

Through Five Republics on Horseback

Ray, G. Whitfield
Ray, George Whitfield

Paperback

Series: Cosimo Classics. Travel & Exploration

AnthropologyFiction AnthologiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1596054859
ISBN13: 9781596054851
Publisher: Cosimo Inc
Published: Nov 1 2005
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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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