Research Catalog

Title

White waters and black / by Gordon MacCreagh.

Author

MacCreagh, Gordon, 1886-1953.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1985.

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Details

Description

xix, 335 p., [26] p. of plates : ill., 1 map; 21 cm.

Subjects

• Amazon River Valley > Description and travel
• Natural history > Amazon River Valley
• Scientific expeditions > Amazon River Valley

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. An Ambitious Expedition -- II. The Way of the Organizer is Hard -- III. Wise Men Out of the North -- IV. The High Cordillera -- V. Down Trails of Discovery -- VI. Dissension in the Camp -- VII. An Inexplicable Habitation -- VIII. Tribulations of Camping -- IX. Scientificos at Large -- X. An Inaccessible Paradise -- XI. The Promised Land -- XII. Marooned on a Desert Isle -- XIII. Deliverance Long Delayed -- XIV. Impedimenta -- XV. White Water -- XVI. Super-Rivermen -- XVII. A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey -- XVIII. Camps of Allure -- XIX. Huachi and the Mission -- XX. Junglecraft -- XXI. Good-by to the Hills -- XXII. Rurrenabaque -- XXIII. Pampa and Swamp -- XXIV. The Unknown Lake -- XXV. From White Water to Black -- XXVI. Manaos, the Mushroom that Died -- XXVII. The Black Water -- XXVIII. The Debatable Country of Up-River -- XXIX. Mainly About Bugs -- XXX. Good Men and Bad -- XXXI. An Up-River King -- XXXII. An Affable Murderer -- XXXIII. Adventure with a Vengeance -- XXXIV. Renunciations and Revisions -- XXXV. Delightful Bad Indians -- XXXVI. The Drug That Makes Men Brave -- XXXVII. Side-Lights -- XXXVIII. The Inevitable Catastrophe.

ISBN

• 0226500160 (pbk.)
• 0226500187 (paper)

LCCN

^^^85008745^//r89

OCLC

1029985601

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library