Notes - The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha - page 421

17. Hoornaert and Comisión de Estudios de História, História da Igreja na Amazônia .
18. See Herndon and Gibbon, Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon .
19. See Lubrich, “Egypt Everywhere.”
20. Muir and Branch, John Muir's Last Journey .
21. See Amazon Adventure by Peter Fleming (brother of 007's inventor Ian Fleming), who wrote
about the attempt to find Colonel Fawcett and his El Dorado. Mostly it's a tale of a bunch of Oxford
hearties let loose in the tropics, but the entire story is saved by the good humor and superior writing of
its protagonist.
22. Wallace, Narrative of Travels .
23. See Pratt, Imperial Eyes ; Nicolson, “Humboldtian Science.” In Cañizares-Esguerra, Nature, Em-
pire, and Nation , especially see “How Derivative Was Humboldt? Microcosmic Narratives in Early
Modern Spanish America and the (Other) Origins of Humboldt's Ecological Sensibilities” (112-29).
Also see Browne, Secular Ark . In Amazonia, von Humboldt's “convivencia” at the mouth of the
Orinoco focused on the local knowledge of his native expeditionaries. See von Humboldt, Bonpland,
and Williams, Personal Narrative .
24. See Burnett, Masters of All They Surveyed ; Raffles, In Amazonia .
25. Bates, Naturalist on the River Amazon ; Burnett, “It Is Impossible to Make a Step without the In-
dians”; Coudreau, Chez nos Indiens ; Davis, One River ; Davis and Schultes, Lost Amazon ; von Hum-
boldt, Bonpland, and Williams, Personal Narrative .
26. Coudreau, Chez nos Indiens ; Coudreau, Voyage au Tocantins-Araguaya ; Coudreau, Voyage au
Xingú ; Herndon and Gibbon, Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon .
27. Barham and Coomes, “Wild Rubber”; Collier, River That God Forgot ; Hemming, Amazon Fron-
tier ; Santos-Granero and Barclay, Tamed Frontiers ; Stanfield, Red Rubber, Bleeding Trees ; Taussig,
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man .
28. Benchimol, Eretz Amazônia ; Harris and Nugent, Some Other Amazonians .
29. Ibid. In the town of Lábrea, Christians, Muslims, and Jews could all be found. Lábrea had an act-
ive Kardist sect, as well as native practices and candomblé. See Loureiro, “Gazeta do Purús.”
30. See Drayton, Nature's Government ; Richard Grove, Green Imperialism ; Burnett, Masters of All
They Surveyed ; Driver and Martins, Tropical Visions ; Cosgrove and Daniels, Iconography of Land-
scape ; Arnold, Problem of Nature ; Miller and Reill, Visions of Empire.
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*1. This is a species of Cecropia , an early successional plant in the New World in general and on the
banks of river terraces in Amazonia.
1. As part of the demilitarization, Peru and Brazil had set up separate regional administrative posts.
2. The beriberi outbreak at the administrative outpost of Novo Lugar, referred to earlier, did not af-
flict the Joint Commission.
3. Da Cunha describes here a phenomenon known locally as a friagem , a cold snap. While unexpec-
ted by many travelers, they are hardly uncommon. Anyone who spends the summer months in Amazo-
nia will experience these sharp extensions of Antarctic air in the tropics, which are extremely unpleas-
ant, although short lived.
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