On the banks of the Amazon, or, A boy's journal of his adventures in the tropical wilds of South America

Date:

1872.

Author:

Kingston, William Henry Giles, 1814-1880.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH K55 O6 local

Publisher:

T. Nelson and Sons

Physical Description:

512 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:

Some illustrations engraved by Hildibrand or Freeman.

Curator Notes:

David C. Cook (Elgin, IL), 1908; Cook was an active publisher of Sunday school books, periodicals and teaching aids, and this story may have originally appeared as a serial in one of his periodicals; front cover titles and decoration printed in black on light green cloth, half-tone color illustration pasted as vignette on front cover

Subjects:

Adventure stories, Natural history Juvenile fiction, Adventure stories, Natural history, and Travel

Genres/Forms:

Fiction and Juvenile works

Geographic Terms:

Amazon River Juvenile fiction, Brazil Description and travel Juvenile fiction, Ecuador Description and travel Juvenile fiction, Amazon River, Brazil, and Ecuador