About this title: Considered a masterpiece of travel literature for nearly a century, The Sea and the Jungle is a wise and witty book of firsts: ostensibly a light-hearted story of a Londoner's first ocean voyage, it is also a carefully crafted journalistic account of the first successful ascent of the Amazon River and its tributary, the Madeira, by an English steamer. One rainy morning in November 1909, Henry Major Tomlinson bid farewell to his family and set off to find his berth as purser aboard the Capella, where he would spend many storm-driven days until landfall at Para on the Brazilian coast. But his ...
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Binding: Spiralbound
Publisher: Time Inc., New York
Date Published: 1964
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. 1964 Time Reading Program soft cover. NOT EX LIB! Bright pages with some light readnig wear, a couple pen marks, long inscription inside front cover, small ink dot on side edge, mild edgewear, spine is barely creased,... 302 p. Time reading program special edition. Tough, durable covers. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Time Inc., New York
Date Published: 1964
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Soft-cover. Page-ends 'foxed', otherwise all G. Spine NOT creased, NO stains, tears, writing, in tight book. xviii, 302 p. 21 cm. Time reading program special edition.. read more
Description: Very Good. 0809436620 1982 Printing / light wear to soft cover / minor writing on 7th page / good clean pages / good or better condition. read more
Binding: Trade Paper back
Publisher: Time
Date Published: undated
Description: Good. Narrative of a tramp steamer voyage from Swansea, Wales to the Para in Brazil, and some 2000 miles along the Amazon forests and Madeira rivers to the San Antonio falls, in 1909-10. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Time-Life
Date Published: 1964
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Small chip to corner of front and back of cover. -, Trade PaperBack, Very Good / read more
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