When work on the Madeira and Mamoré Railway in the heart of South America was halted, its resident engineer chose to return home the long way. His diary carries him up the Amazon and the rapids of the Madeira and Mamoré, across Bolivia and over the Andes to the Peruvian coast, with notes on geology, rubber, river people and towns.
A solid, observant account of interior South America in the 1870s. Download the free EPUB.