Excerpt from Around and About South America Twenty Months of Quest and Query It has been my aim and aspiration to grasp salient feat ures and emphatic characteristics, and to delineate them with a careful conciseness that shall beget a correct and lively general impression. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

An itinerary takes you from the U.S. through the Panama Canal to every major city on both coasts of South America, and en route in the Caribbean Sea. You will learn the most interesting places to visit and the history. Useful information is provided for the traveler, including health and security. The itinerary includes travel to Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Honduras, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, Trinidad & Tabago, Uruguay, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The Amazon River is about 4,000 miles long. Brazil takes up more than 48 percent of South America’s total area. These and other fun facts about South America are waiting for readers to discover as they explore the relationship between geography and math. Readers learn fascinating stats about South America, and they are able to use those stats to solve problems that support common math curriculum topics. A helpful answer key is included for them to check their results. South America’s colorful landscape is shown through vibrant photographs, and detailed maps guide readers on their journey through this continent.

Excerpt from Around and About South America Twenty Months of Quest and Query Mr recent journey through South America included visits to all the capitals, chief cities, and important seaports; expeditions into the interior of Brazil and the Argentine Republic; and ascents of the Parana, Paraguay, Amazon, Orinoco, and Magdalena Rivers. It covered about thirty-five thousand miles, and forced me to realize that our great southern continent contains twice the area and half the population of the United States. It has been my aim and aspiration to grasp salient features and emphatic characteristics, and to delineate them with a careful conciseness that shall beget a correct and lively general impression. The difficulty of carrying out this design within so comparatively small a space will at once be perceived by the discriminating reader, and will, I hope, induce him to extend to the present volume the same leniency which both press and public have bestowed upon my former contributions to the universal and ever incomplete library of travel, adventure, and discovery. Postscript. - The unexpected change of government in Brazil, which has just occurred, found this narrative already in type, and hence it is published as originally written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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