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Across Unknown South America, by
Arnold Henry Savage Landor This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net
Title: Across Unknown South America
Author: Arnold Henry Savage Landor
Release Date: August 31, 2007 [EBook #22483]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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[Illustration: The Author.]
ACROSS UNKNOWN
SOUTH AMERICA
BY
A. HENRY SAVAGE-LANDOR
WITH 2 MAPS, 8 COLOURED PLATES, AND 260 ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO
Printed in 1913
Copyright in the United States of America
by A. Henry Savage-Landor
THIS WORK IS DEDICATED
TO
THE PEOPLE
OF THE
GREAT BRAZILIAN REPUBLIC
PREFACE
SOUTH America is, to my mind, "the Coming Continent"--the Continent of the future. Everybody knows the wealth of the Argentine, Peru, Chile, and Bolivia; but the interior of Brazil, the largest and richest country of all, not unlike forbidden Tibet, was perhaps better known a century or two ago than now. Few people realize that Brazil is larger than the United States of North America, Germany, Portugal, and
Across Unknown South America
by Arnold Henry Savage Landor