TY - BOOK ID - 85473365 TI - Voyage au Tapajoz : 28 juillet 1895-7 janvier 1896 PY - 2012 SN - 0511695500 1108007392 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Tapajós River (Brazil) KW - Pará (Brazil : State) KW - Description and travel. KW - Grão-Pará (Brazil : State) KW - Tapajóz River (Brazil) KW - Rio Tapajós (Brazil) KW - Rio Tapajóz (Brazil) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85473365 AB - In the first of three exploratory missions into the Amazon basin, the French explorer, geologist, and scholar Henri Coudreau spent nearly seven months on the Tapajoz river, from 28 July 1895 to 7 January 1896. Coudreau was working as a teacher and scientist in French Guyana when he was commissioned by the governor of Brazil's Par©Ł state to explore the Amazon's tributaries. His 1897 Voyage au Tapajoz carefully records the villages, towns, peoples, and environs encountered throughout his journey. Illustrations, meteorological tables, and vocabularies of indigenous languages demonstrate Coudreau's wide-ranging interests and observations and his rigorous approach to data collection. He also includes poetic detail, describing, for instance, 'un ciel du matin d'une douceur exquise'. ER -