1994, ISBN: 9780811725699

1949, Departamento de Imprensa Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. Ministerio da Agricultura. Conselho Nacional de Proteção aos índios. Publicação No. 5 da Comissão de Linhas Telegráficas Estratég… mais…

1949, Departamento de Imprensa Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. Ministerio da Agricultura. Conselho Nacional de Proteção aos índios. Publicação No. 5 da Comissão de Linhas Telegráficas Estratégicas de Mato-Grosso ao Amazonas (Comissão Rondon). Anexo No. 2. First published 1910; second edition 1945; this is the third edition. In Portuguese. An account of the expedition led by Cándido Mariano da Silva Rondon into the Amazon to explore the Jaci-Paraná River and consider the feasibility of erecting a telegraph line. Rondon, "an army officer of Indian ancestry, founded the government agency known as the Indian Protective Service..., one of the most unique organizations in the history of the Western Hemisphere. Those who worked with Rondon had to swear that they would never kill, not even in self-defense. He made many expeditions through the unexplored wilderness, establishing peaceful contact with unknown tribes and collecting an enormous amount of scientific data" (Donald E. Worcester). Contents include a summary of the Rio Jaci-Paraná, a narrative of the work accomplished, detailed astronomical observations for longitude, measurements of transverse sections of the river and calculations of water masses, tables of altitude, temperature and distances, and the exploration diary of adjutant Amilcar Botelho de Magalhães. This copy was bound without maps, although the table of contents indicates maps at p. 205 & following. Soft Cover. 204 pages, folding table; grey printed wrappers; 27 cm.; spine darkened & rubbed, else VG. stock#27746., Departamento de Imprensa Nacional., 1949, 0, Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1994. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated] thus. Trade paperback. Good. Frontis illustration. Foreword by Tweed Roosevelt. Illustrations. Maps. Appendices. Index. This is one of the Classics of American Sport series. The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition was a survey expedition in 1913-14 to follow the path of the Rio da Dúvida ("River of Doubt") in the Amazon basin. The expedition was jointly led by Theodore Roosevelt, the former President of the United States, and Colonel Cândido Rondon, the Brazilian explorer who had discovered its headwaters in 1909. Sponsored in part by the American Museum of Natural History, they also collected many new animal and insect specimens. The river was eventually named "Rio Roosevelt" for the former president, who nearly died during the voyage. In 1992 a modern expedition was organized and sponsored in part by the Theodore Roosevelt Association. It reported that his expedition "found spots chronicled by the original team, saw plants and insects they described, and went down the rapids that crushed the dugout canoes of 1914". Tweed Roosevelt (born February 28, 1942) is the great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt via Roosevelt's son Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, and his son Archibald (Jr.). He is Chairman of Roosevelt China Investments, a Boston firm. He occasionally lectures and writes on the topic of his great-grandfather. He is the President of the Board of Trustees of the Theodore Roosevelt Association. Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) wrote this firsthand account of his experiences as coleader of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition during its trek through unknown regions of Paraguay and Brazil from the late fall of 1913 to the spring of 1914. Instigated at the request of the American Museum of Natural History and the Brazilian government itself, the expedition was charged with mapping the 950-mile River of Doubt - a previously unexplored tributary to the Amazon River - but the scientific mission swiftly became a harrowing test of endurance from which Roosevelt was lucky to escape alive., Stackpole Books, 1994, 2.5<

1994, ISBN: 0811725693

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[EAN: 9780811725699], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA], BRAZIL, ROOSEVELT-RONDON, GEORGE CHERRIE, ANTHONY FIALA, JOAO LYRA, LEO MILLER, NHAMBIQUARA, RIVE… mais…

[EAN: 9780811725699], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA], BRAZIL, ROOSEVELT-RONDON, GEORGE CHERRIE, ANTHONY FIALA, JOAO LYRA, LEO MILLER, NHAMBIQUARA, RIVER OF DOUBT, CANDIDO RONDON, PIRANHA, RIO DA DUVIDA, KERMIT ROOSEVELT, Frontis illustration. Foreword by Tweed Roosevelt. Illustrations. Maps. Appendices. Index. This is one of the Classics of American Sport series. The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition was a survey expedition in 1913-14 to follow the path of the Rio da Dúvida ("River of Doubt") in the Amazon basin. The expedition was jointly led by Theodore Roosevelt, the former President of the United States, and Colonel Cândido Rondon, the Brazilian explorer who had discovered its headwaters in 1909. Sponsored in part by the American Museum of Natural History, they also collected many new animal and insect specimens. The river was eventually named "Rio Roosevelt" for the former president, who nearly died during the voyage. In 1992 a modern expedition was organized and sponsored in part by the Theodore Roosevelt Association. It reported that his expedition "found spots chronicled by the original team, saw plants and insects they described, and went down the rapids that crushed the dugout canoes of 1914". Tweed Roosevelt (born February 28, 1942) is the great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt via Roosevelt's son Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, and his son Archibald (Jr.). He is Chairman of Roosevelt China Investments, a Boston firm. He occasionally lectures and writes on the topic of his great-grandfather. He is the President of the Board of Trustees of the Theodore Roosevelt Association. Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) wrote this firsthand account of his experiences as coleader of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition during its trek through unknown regions of Paraguay and Brazil from the late fall of 1913 to the spring of 1914. Instigated at the request of the American Museum of Natural History and the Brazilian government itself, the expedition was charged with mapping the 950-mile River of Doubt - a previously unexplored tributary to the Amazon River - but the scientific mission swiftly became a harrowing test of endurance from which Roosevelt was lucky to escape alive. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated] thus., Books<

1994, ISBN: 0811725693

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1994, ISBN: 9780811725699

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