1920: Eight Hundred Leagues up the Amazon (Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon) 1920 Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd London 1'6 cost. Garral, a Brazilian, lives on a thriving fazenda (plantation) in the Peruvian frontier with his loving family. Menu. And while the muddy Amazon water hides its … The book reflects many of the prejudices of the period, including giving a vivid description of how the body of a drowned person will rise to the surface if a cannon is fired over the water (you will also find reference to this in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn). Publisher's Summary. Excellent classic adventure tale about a trip down the Amazon River from Peru to the Atlantic where, along the way, we meet with danger, romance, mystery, and a numeric cryptogram which has to be solved in order to save someone's life. | Hard to follow due to language in the time it was written. A family travels on a giant raft along the Amazon river, from Iquitos to Belém. Definitely not my favorite Verne. 800 Leagues on the Amazon by Jules Verne 800 Leagues on the Amazon by Jules Verne. Two characters attempt suicide in fits of despair, although both attempts are stopped. Here is a most interesting Jules Verne tale. 0 Reviews Fewer than 50 Ratings You might also like Kindled for free: Very boring and so starting for the most part, but the cryptogram at the end livens things up a lot, and then everything happens quite fast. But, his daughter's imminent marriage to a Brazilian army surgeon compels him to return to his homeland to face the dark secrets of his past. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Language: English: LoC Class: PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese: Subject: Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction Subject: Voyages and travels -- Fiction Subject: Brazil -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Subject: Peru -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Subject Rather, it describes a voyage down the Amazon River on a large raft, or jangada). 800 Leagues on the Amazon (Talking Book CD) : Verne, Jules : Jules Verne's nineteenth-century adventure novel follows Joam Garral, a ranch owner living near the Peruvian-Brazilian border on the Amazon River who is forced to travel downstream when his past catches up with him. It looks like we don't have a Synopsis for this title yet. It's hard not to be fascinated by a guy living in Paris and writing a travelogue about a continent he hadn't visited, simply by doing research. Take a journey on a giant raft with Joam Garral down 800 leagues on the Amazon. 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