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Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon by Herndon [156128]

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Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon by Herndon [156128]

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Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon by Herndon, 1854. In 1857, Captain William Lewis Herndon sacrificed his life trying to save 600 passengers and crew when his ship foundered in a hurricane off the Carolina coast. Memorialized in Gary Kinder's best-selling book Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea, Herndon, with this final courageous act, epitomized a lifetime of heroism. Seven years earlier, the secretary of the Navy had appointed Herndon to lead the first American expedition into the Amazon Valley. 417pp plus TOC.Date: Country (if not USA): South AmericaState: City: Provenance: Jim & Barbara Sherman Private Western Mining Museum

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