THE AMAZON AND THE YOUNG COMMANDANT


Book Description

A young soldier was raised by a King whom he taught was the bonafide father. He embarked on a journey with his troop to find a cure to the King's illness where they ran into a young, stunning amazon. Soon after saving the King, the village faced a tremendouns drought and they had to consult an oracle. The oracle made him aware that the King is the killer of his parents and thus the cause of their predicament and has to die before it starts raining. He challenged the King and defeated him. He enthroned the King's best ally as their new King. As the story continued, the new King betrayed him by given him to a different Kingdom for a crime he knew nothing about.




Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon


Book Description

"Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon" by Jules Verne Joam Garral grants his daughter's wish to travel to Belém, where she wants to marry Manuel Valdez in the presence of Manuel's invalid mother. The Garrals travel down the Amazon River using a giant timber raft. At Belém, Joam plans to restore his good name, as he is still wanted in Brazil for a crime he did not perpetrate. A scoundrel named Torres offers Joam absolute proof of Joam's innocence, but the price that Torres wants for this information is to marry Joam's daughter, which is inconceivable to Joam. The proof lies in an encrypted letter that will exonerate Garral. When Torres is killed, the Garral family must race to decode the letter before Joam is executed.



















Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon


Book Description

Made Under Direction of the Navy Department, by W. L. Herndon and L. Gibbon. With Maps.







The Amazon Bubble


Book Description

The purpose of this book is to reconstruct the background and history of this ephemeral rubber trade and the undaunted frontiersmen who made this great industry possible.