Edward D. (Edward Davis) Mathews

Edward D. Mathews, fully listed in library records as Edward D. (Edward Davis) Mathews, lived from 1838 to 1903. The work most clearly associated with him in major catalog and public-domain sources is Up the Amazon and Madeira Rivers, through Bolivia and Peru, first published in London in 1879.

That book presents Mathews as a traveler and observer of South America in the late nineteenth century. It follows a journey along the Amazon and Madeira river systems and has been described in modern catalog summaries as a detailed travel narrative shaped by navigation, landscape, and encounters along the way.

Reliable biographical detail beyond his dates and this notable book is scarce in the sources I could confirm. Even so, his writing has lasted because it offers readers both an adventure story and a historical glimpse of travel in the Amazon region at a time when such journeys were demanding, uncertain, and full of discovery.