IN THE AMAZON JUNGLE: Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians.

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405 pp. First edition, first printing. Green buckram with gold stamped upper cover with color illustration affixed; gold lettering stamped across the spine; t.e.g.; white headbands; illustrated endpapers printed tan; two fold-out maps; tissue guarded color fp. No dust jacket. Binding tight; light wear; internally fine. See additional images provided. Quoting the Introduction, by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh: ". . . I never would have predicted the adventures he actually passed through alive. He started in fine spirits: buoyant, strong, vigorous. When I saw him again in New York, a year or so later, on his return, he was an emaciated fever-wreck, placing one foot before the other only with much exertion and indeed barely able to hold himself erect. A few weeks in the hospital, followed by a daily diet of quinine, improved his condition, but after months he had scarcely arrived at his previous excellent physical state. Many explorers have had experiences similar to those related in this volume, but, at least so far as the fever and the cannibals are concerned, they have seldom survived to tell of them. Their interviews with cannibals have been generally too painfully confined to internal affairs to be available in this world for authorship, whereas Mr. Lange, happily, avoided not only a calamitous intimacy, but was even permitted to view the culinary preparations relating to the absorption of less favoured individuals, and himself could have joined the feast, had he possessed the stomach for it. Size: 8vo. 0.0. N° de ref. del artículo 3429

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