Inspired by PenguinÃ,'s innovative Great Ideas series, our new Great Journeys series presents the most incredible tours, voyages, treks, expeditions, and travels ever writtenÃ, -- from Isabella BirdÃ,'s exaltation in the dangers of grizzlies, rattles...
IN April, 1848, the author of the present volume left England in company with Mr. A. R. Wallace-"who has since acquired wide fame in connection with the Darwinian theory of Natural Selection"-on a joint expedition up the river Amazons, for the purpos...