Edward D. (Edward Davis) Mathews

Edward D. Mathews, also cited as Edward Davis Mathews, is known for the travel book Up the Amazon and Madeira Rivers, through Bolivia and Peru, published in London in 1879. The book records a journey through South America and presents itself as a firsthand account of travel along the Amazon and Madeira river systems.

What survives clearly in widely available sources is his authorship of that book, rather than a full personal biography. Modern library and public-domain records consistently connect him with this 1879 volume, which has kept his name in circulation for readers interested in exploration writing, river travel, and nineteenth-century accounts of Bolivia and Peru.

Because reliable biographical detail is scarce in the sources I could confirm here, it is safest to remember him mainly through his writing: a practical, adventurous narrative from the age of long-distance expedition travel.