White Waters and Black (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. An Early Twentieth-Century Amazon Expedition Through Rapids, Rainforest, Science, Survival, and Jungle OrdealBy Gordon MacCreagh
Length11h 55m
About this audiobook
White Waters and Black is Gordon MacCreagh's vigorous record of travel through the Amazonian river world, especially the contrasting "white" and "black" waters that organize its geography and imagination. Written in the tradition of early twentieth-century expedition narrative, it combines adventure, natural history, comic ordeal, and ethnographic encounter in a prose style at once brisk, observant, and theatrically self-aware. The book belongs to a literary context shaped by imperial exploration and popular science, yet its best pages reveal a sharp eye for landscape, labor, and the practical absurdities of jungle travel. MacCreagh was a Scottish-born American adventurer, journalist, and professional wanderer whose career depended on turning difficult journeys into readable experience. His participation in Amazonian exploration, including scientific and collecting expeditions, gave him the authority of one who had endured the rivers, insects, portages, heat, and precarious logistics he describes. His background as a magazine writer also shaped the book's pace, humor, and appetite for striking incident. Readers interested in travel literature, Amazonian history, or the uneasy alliance between science and adventure will find White Waters and Black rewarding. It should be read critically, with attention to its period assumptions, but also appreciatively, as a vivid, intelligent, and often exhilarating document of exploration writing.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreTravel
Length11 hrs 55 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 10, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2I. — AN AMBITIOUS EXPEDITION
3II. — THE WAY OF THE ORGANIZER IS HARD
4III. — WISE MEN OUT OF THE NORTH
5IV. — THE HIGH CORDILLERA
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6V. — DOWN TRAILS OF DISCOVERY
7VI. — DISSENSION IN THE CAMP
8VII. — AN INEXPLICABLE HABITATION
9VIII. — TRIBULATIONS OF CAMPING
10IX. — SCIENTIFICOS AT LARGE
11X. — AN INACCESSIBLE PARADISE
12XI. — THE PROMISED LAND
13XII. — MAROONED ON A DESERT ISLE
14XIII. — DELIVERANCE LONG DELAYED
15XIV. — IMPEDIMENTA
16XV. — WHITE WATER
17XVI. — SUPER-RIVERMEN
18XVII. — A LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY
19XVIII. — CAMPS OF ALLURE
20XIX. — HUACHI AND THE MISSION
21XX. — JUNGLECRAFT
22XXI. — GOOD-BY TO THE HILLS
23XXII. — RURRENABAQUE
24XXIII. — PAMPA AND SWAMP
25XXIV. — THE UNKNOWN LAKE
26XXV. — FROM WHITE WATER TO BLACK
27XXVI. — MANÁOS, THE MUSHROOM THAT DIED
28XXVII. — THE BLACK WATER
29XXVIII. — THE DEBATABLE COUNTRY OF UP-RIVER
30XXIX. — MAINLY ABOUT BUGS
31XXX. — GOOD MEN AND BAD
32XXXI. — AN UP-RIVER KING
33XXXII. — AN AFFABLE MURDERER
34XXXIII. — ADVENTURE WITH A VENGEANCE
35XXXIV. — RENUNCIATIONS AND REVISIONS
36XXXV. — DELIGHTFUL BAD INDIANS
37XXXVI. — THE DRUG THAT MAKES MEN BRAVE
38XXXVII. — SIDE-LIGHTS
39XXXVIII. — THE INEVITABLE CATASTROPHE
40THE END
41Memorable Quotes
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