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Title: White Waters and Black by Gordon MacCreagh, George B. Schaller ISBN: 0-226-50018-7 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A keeper
Comment: I can't believe you can get this book used! I own three copies and I don't even loan it out. This is a terrific expedition book and a wonderful book about being human. My family was thrilled to know that this book was being re-issued. Like one of the other reviewers, I was brought up knowing who the various scientists were because my father had worked with a colleague. It gave us plesure to know the names, some of whom were quite well known even today. It was also nice to know that at least for the eminent icthyolgist and the eminent entomologist the work that they produced from this expedition was very useful. I have recommmened this book countless times, and get copies for friends I really like.
Rating: 5
Summary: How Not To Conduct An Expedition
Comment: When your read of other expeditions and how well they were conducted, then you read Gordon MacCreagh's humorous account of a mistake-ridden expedition into the Amazon, and you may wonder how this could happen. Clearly, the leader of MacCreagh's expedition was no Roy Chapman Andrews. Too many mistakes with both men and equipment. It is a humorous, often hilarious account of how not to conduct an expedition into the Amazon -- or anywhere else. I found it to be much better than Peter Fleming's "Amazon Adventure" and somewhat better than Arthur O. Friel's "River of Seven Stars," which has not been reprinted. MacCreagh's sense of humor and keen observations are what place this book at the top of my list of exploration/expedition books. I found it difficult to keep from sharing portions of this book with family and friends...
Rating: 5
Summary: The Idiots abroad, this time in the Amazon
Comment: George Schaller, in his introduction, says that if you only read one expedition book, this should be it. He's right. The true story of one of the least glorious endeavors in the history of science is told by one of only two members of the 'most expensive expedition ever' who seems to have had a full set of marbles. Poor planning, laughable gullibility and a breathtaking lack of field experience force the others one by one to quit as the hapless crew navigate various tributaries of the Amazon. In the end, only the author and his companion 'Young America' remain, but unencumbered by the others they go on to discover more than the whole original dog-and-pony show with its six tons of gear. McCreagh was unavoidably a man of his time; even so his attitude to the natives is remarkably progressive, and this is what gets him his impressive anthropological results.
Despite his disclaimer to the effect that the work contains 'no science', this is a valuable glimpse into the dim world of the upper Amazon. First and foremost, though, it's a hilarious read - and all the funnier if you've ever been on an expedition yourself.
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Title: The Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon by Michael Goulding, Ronaldo Barthem, Efrem Jorge Gondim Ferreira ISBN: 1588341356 Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: In Amazonia: A Natural History by Hugh Raffles ISBN: 0691048851 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates, Henry Walter Botes ISBN: 1589761979 Publisher: The Narrative Press Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Floods of Fortune by Michael Goulding, Nigel J. H. Smith, Dennis J. Mahar ISBN: 0231104219 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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Title: Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon by William Lewis Herndon, Gary Kinder, Lardner Gibbon, United States Navy Dept ISBN: 0802137040 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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