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"Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon" by Jules Verne. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881. First American edition

This adventure novel involves how Joam Garral, a ranch owner who lives near the Peruvian-Brazilian border on the Amazon River, is forced to travel downstream when his past catches up with him. Most of the novel is situated on a large jangada (a Brazilian timber raft) that is used by Garral and his family to float to Belem at the river's mouth. Many aspects of the raft , scenery, and journey are described in detail and the novel features illustrations by Leon Benett.

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