In the Heart of the Amazon Forest

PENGUIN GREAT JOURNEYS NO. IITHE BANKS OF THE UPPER AMAZON RIVER, 1859Soaked to the skin, zoologišt Walter Henry Bates lies shivering in a canoe, waiting for dawn, hoping the pattering sound is not a prowling black jaguar. At leašt he had had a fascinating morning, colleξting specimens of inseξts never recorded before. His battered notebooks tell his story – an incredible eleven-year adventure in the Amazon jungle, hunting fish and precious turtle’s eggs, avoiding deadly snakes and killing alligators with one blow.Journey back in time with hištory’s greastešt adventurers1 HERODOTUS Snakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants2 MAS’ŪDĪ From Tbe Meadows of Gold3 MARCO POLO The Cuštoms of the Kingdoms of India4 CABEZA DE VACA The Sbipwrecked Men5 WILLIAM DAMPIER Piracy, Turtles and Flying Foxes6 MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Life on the Golden Horn7 JAMES COOK Hunt for the Soutbern Continent8 OLAUDAH EQUIANO Sold as a Slave9 ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT Jaguars and Eleξtric Eels10 SIR RICHARD BURTON To the Holy Sbrines11 WALTER HENRY BATES In the Heart of the Amazon Forešt12 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE Broneo, Celebes, Aru13 MARK TWAIN Can-cans, Cats and Cities of Ash14 ISABELLA BIRD Adventures in the Rocky Mountains15 ANTON CHEKHOV A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire16 MARY KINGSLEY The Congo and the Cameroons17 ERNEST SHACKLETON Escape from the Antarξtic18 GEORGE ORWELL Fighting in Spain19 WILFRED THESIGER Across the Empty Quarter20 RYSZARD KAPUŚCIŃSKI The Cobra’s Heart