Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes 2 Volume Set
Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes 2 Volume Set
Alfred Russel Wallace
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inc GSTHaving previously embarked on a collecting expedition to the Pyrenees, backed by Sir William Hooker and George Bentham, the botanist Richard Spruce (1817–93) travelled in 1849 to South America, where he carried out unprecedented exploration among the diverse flora across the northern part of the continent. After his death, Spruce's writings on fifteen fruitful years of discovery were edited as a labour of love by fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), whom Spruce had met in Santarém. This two-volume work, first published in 1908, includes many of the author's exquisite illustrations. Showing the determination to reach plants in almost inaccessible areas, Spruce collected hundreds of species, many with medicinal properties, notably the quinine-yielding cinchona tree, as well as the datura and coca plants. Volume 1 contains Wallace's biographical introduction and a list of Spruce's published works. Volume 2 includes discussion of the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Andes and the cinchona forests of western Chimborazo.
Product details
February 2014Multiple copy pack
9781108070188
1152 pages
218 × 229 × 56 mm
1.45kg
71 b/w illus. 7 maps
Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Preface
- Biographical introduction
- List of books and papers
- 1. Pará and the equatorial forests
- 2. Voyage to Santarem and first residence there
- 3. To Obydos and the River Trombetas
- 4. Residence at Santarem
- 5. Geology and botany of Santarem
- 6. From Santarem to the Rio Negro
- 7. Residence at Manáos
- 8. Voyage up the Rio Negro at Sao Gabriel
- 9. Cataracts and mountain-forests of Sao Gabriel
- 10. Cataracts and unexplored forests of the Uaupés river
- 11. At San Carlos do Rio Negro
- 12. In Humboldt's country
- 13. To the cataracts of the Orinoco and return to San Carlos
- 14. San Carlos to Manáos (Barra). Volume 2:
- 15. From Barra do Rio Negro to Tarapoto, Peru
- 16. Residence at Tarapoto
- 17. Voyage in small canoes from Tarapoto to Canelos on the Bombonasa river
- 18. Through the forest on Canelos to Banos
- 19. Botanical excursions in the Andes of Ecuador
- 20. Ambato and the Cinchona forests of AlausÃ
- 21. The Cinchona forests of western Chimborazo
- 22. Spruce's last three years in South America
- 23. Letters and articles relating to his Amazonian travels
- 24. On ant-agency in plant-structure
- 25. On indigenous narcotics and stimulants, with their uses by the Indians
- 26. The women-warriors of the Amazon
- 27. The engraved rocks of the Rio Negro and Casiquiari
- 28. A hidden treasure of the Incas
- Glossary of native names
- Index.
