Wanderings in South America
by Charles Waterton
Publisher: Cassell & Co 1887
ISBN/ASIN: B0008AIFTA
Number of pages: 191
Description:
For years readers have enjoyed Charles Waterton's intriguing book, Wanderings in South America, about his adventurous travels in Guiana, West Indies. Waterton, a famous English eccentric and naturalist, returned to England in 1821 from an expedition to Guiana, where he had collected hundreds of specimens of South American wildlife, all carefully preserved.
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