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Автор: Bradbury James a.
Название: Daring Deeds in the Tropics: A Thrilling Narrative of Remarkable Adventures, Terrible Experiences, Amazing Achievements and Important Discoveries o
ISBN: 9781330178416
Издательство: Forgotten Books
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1330178416
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 632
Вес: 0.83 кг.
Дата издания: 05.01.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 22.91 x 15.19 x 3.23 cm
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Excerpt from Daring Deeds in the Tropics: A Thrilling Narrative of Remarkable Adventures, Terrible Experiences, Amazing Achievements and Important Discoveries of Great Travelers in Southern Climes

Though much has been done since Livmgstones time to fill up the blanks of Central Africas physical geography, no expedition has ever returned with a richer harvest of discoveries than Stanleys last. The almost impenetrable forest of the Aruwimi, probably the largest of African forests - extending over four hundred miles of latitude and longitude - with a dense jungle in all stages of decay, resounding with the murmurs of monkeys and chimpanzees, strange noises of birds and animals, and the crashes of troops of elephants rushing through the dark and tangled copse, is an obstacle that, once surmounted, gives us the hydrography of the greatest lake system of the globe, adds to the giant mountains of geography the stately and snow-clad Ruwenzori, whose rocky peak towers eighteen or nineteen thousand feet above sea-level, and to the lakes the Albert Edward Nyanza, whence issues the mysterious stream which fertilizes Egypt and makes the valley of the Nile the most marvel lous seat of human culture, art and science.

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Daring Deeds in the Tropics: A Thrilling Narrative of Remarkable Adventures, Terrible Experiences, Amazing Achievements and Important Discoveries o, Bradbury James a.