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1854 AMAZON Exploration BRAZIL South America Voyages Illustrated Herndon RARE
1854 AMAZON Exploration BRAZIL South America Voyages Illustrated Herndon RARE
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1854 AMAZON Exploration BRAZIL South America Voyages Illustrated Herndon RARE



Commander William Lewis Herndon was one of the US Navys outstanding explorers and seamen. In 1851 the secretary of the Navy appointed Herndon to lead the first American expedition into the Amazon Valley. He cataloged the scientific and commercial observations requested by Congress, but he filed his report as a narrative, creating an intimate portrait of an exotic land before the outside world rushed in.



Herndon described his adventures with such insight, such compassion and wit, and such literary grace that he came to symbolize the new spirit of exploration and discovery sweeping mid-19th-century America.



Item number: #17358

Price: $499



HERNDON, William Lewis



Exploration of the valley of the Amazon



Washington: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1854. 1st edition



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages;

x, [2], 339, [1]

36 plates

Provenance:

Handwritten – Franklin K. Young

Possibly Franklin Knowles Young (1857-1931), an American author and chess-player who tried to apply military strategies to chess games. His books on chess strategies are notoriously difficult to interpret and have been subject to criticism from the time of publication to present day.

Bookplate – F. H. Mullen, MD

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; secure

Cloth

Size: ~9in X 6in (22.5cm x 15.5cm)



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