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Explorers of the Amazon

Anthony Smith

出版	University of Chicago Press, 1994
主題	Biography & Autobiography / Adventurers & ExplorersHistory / GeneralHistory / Latin America / South AmericaHistory / Expeditions & Discoveries
ISBN	02267633749780226763378
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QRXi0Txti8IC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋

Explorers of the Amazon vividly describes how European explorers such as Pedro Cabral, Francisco De Orellana, Lope de Aguirre, and Madame Godin encountered the vast wilderness of the Amazon basin; how they searched, exploited, and fought over its riches; and what they learned and failed to learn through four centuries of adventure. Anthony Smith not only enriches this history with fascinating geographical, political, and scientific details but also gives a strong warning to those who continue to exploit this great river's resources.

"The history of Amazonian exploration, wonderfully told by Anthony Smith, is awash with madness—an extravagant mixture of the malevolent and the miraculous."—Stephen Mills, Times Literary Supplement