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A Journey in Brazil

Name: A Journey in Brazil
Author: Louis Agassiz

by Louis Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2017-12-12

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Brazil -- Description and travel Geology -- Amazon River Valley F2501

About the authors

Louis Agassiz

1807–1873

A Swiss-born naturalist who became one of the best-known scientists in 19th-century America, he wrote vividly about fish, fossils, glaciers, and the natural world. His career helped shape early American science, even as some of his later ideas became deeply controversial.

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Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz

1822–1907

A pioneering educator and naturalist, she helped open the door to serious higher education for women in Cambridge and became the first president of Radcliffe College. Her life also reached into science writing and expedition travel, giving her work an unusual range for the 19th century.

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