"Amazon River" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as a young man, he went West and lived for some time the life of a ranchman and hunter, killing much wild game. In later years he went on a great hunting trip to Africa, and finally explored the wilds of the Amazon river, in South America, in search of game and adventure. "Old Ephraim" narrates one of his earlier hunting experiences, and is taken from the book, The Hunting Trips of ...
— The Literary World Seventh Reader • Various
... broken open and marketed by the Indians, who roam through these dark, gloomy, miasmatic forests. The extraordinary abundance of the crop may be measured by the fact, that one port alone on the Amazon River, exports annually more than fifty millions of these ...
— Solaris Farm - A Story of the Twentieth Century • Milan C. Edson
... heard about them. Well, I hope you get all the oranges and bananas you want. South America, eh? I suppose along the Amazon river, where they have crocodiles forty feet long, that ...
— Tom Swift in Captivity • Victor Appleton
... Amazon river: falls of the. valley of the. navigation of. tributary streams of. bridges over the. course of the. basin of the. plains of the. ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America V3 • Alexander von Humboldt |
