TY - BOOK AU - Herndon,William Lewis AU - Gibbon,Lardner TI - Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, Part 2 (of 2) AV - F2501 PY - 2018/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Peru -- Description and travel KW - Brazil -- Description and travel KW - Bolivia -- Description and travel KW - Amazon River Valley -- Description and travel KW - Amazon River Valley -- Discovery and exploration -- American N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_the_Valley_of_the_Amazon; Release date is 2018-08-26; E-text prepared by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, Part 2 (of 2)" by Herndon and Gibbon is a two-volume expedition report published in 1854. In 1851, U.S. Navy lieutenants William Lewis Herndon and Lardner Gibbon split their expedition party to explore different routes through the vast, uncharted Amazon Valley. Their journey covered thousands of miles from Lima, Peru to Pará, Brazil, traversing wilderness from sea level to extreme elevations. Their detailed observations of this mysterious region captivated readers worldwide, prompting the government to print tens of thousands of copies. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57771 ER -