[Gutenberg 37205] • The Sea and the Jungle
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- Authors
- Tomlinson, H.M.
- Publisher
- Marlboro Press
- Tags
- madeira river (brazil and bolivia) -- description and travel , ocean travel -- history -- 20th century , h. m. (henry major) , capella (ship) , tomlinson , 1873-1958 -- travel -- amazon river region , wilderness areas -- amazon river region , 1873-1958 -- diaries , history , adventure , travel , amazon river region -- description and travel , amazon river -- description and travel
- ISBN
- 9780810160118
- Date
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.27 MB
- Lang
- en
Considered a masterpiece of travel literature for nearly a century, *The Sea and the Jungle* is a wise and witty book of firsts: ostensibly a lighthearted story of a Londoner's first ocean voyage, it is also a carefully crafted journalistic account of the first successful ascent of the Amazon River and its tributary, the Madeira, by an English steamer. First published in 1912, *The Sea and the Jungle* remains one of the most popular accounts of a traveler's experience in Amazonia. As Peter Matthiessen observed fifty years later, " *The Sea and the Jungle* is one of the few level-headed works in the literature of this region. . . . accurate and difficult to improve upon."