White Waters and Black,9780226500188

White Waters and Black

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ISBN13: 9780226500188
ISBN10: 0226500187
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-03-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Chicago Pr
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Summary

With a wicked eye for absurdities, Gordon MacCreagh recounts his adventures with eight "Eminent Scientificos" as they set out to explore the Amazon in 1923 without any idea of what lies ahead of them: rapids, malaria, monkey stew, and "dangerous savages." A combination of Twain's The Innocents Abroad and a cautionary tale for explorers, this is one of the most honest accounts ever written of a scientific expedition.

Author Biography

Gordon MacCreagh (1886-1953), aside from being an author, was also an ethnologist, photographer, Nile barge captain, tea plantation manager, lecturer, and enthusiast of the Scottish bagpipes.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi
Biographical Note xiv
An Ambitious Expedition
1(6)
The Way of the Organizer is Hard
7(8)
Wise Men Out of the North
15(6)
The High Cordillera
21(9)
Down Trails of Discovery
30(7)
Dissension in the Camp
37(8)
An Inexplicable Habitation
45(7)
Tribulations of Camping
52(6)
Scientificos at Large
58(5)
An Inaccessible Paradise
63(9)
The Promised Land
72(7)
Marooned on a Desert Isle
79(10)
Deliverance Long Delayed
89(6)
Impedimenta
95(11)
White Water
106(8)
Super-Rivermen
114(7)
A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey
121(9)
Camps of Allure
130(10)
Huachi and the Mission
140(10)
Junglecraft
150(7)
Good-By to the Hills
157(9)
Rurrenabaque
166(12)
Pampa and Swamp
178(10)
The Unknown Lake
188(10)
From White Water to Black
198(10)
Manaos, the Mushroom that Died
208(14)
The Black Water
222(13)
The Debatable Country of Up-River
235(9)
Mainly About Bugs
244(7)
Good Men and Bad
251(10)
An Up-River King
261(6)
An Affable Murderer
267(8)
Adventure with a Vengeance
275(15)
Renunciations and Revisions
290(12)
Delightful Bad Indians
302(9)
The Drug That Makes Men Brave
311(10)
Side-Lights
321(6)
The Inevitable Catastrophe
327

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