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
Rating★★★★ 4.5 (196)
Includes Amazon, Goodreads
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
Show all chaptersShow less
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
A Cook's TourAnthony Bourdain5h 50m4.2 (38.2K)$28 · $0.00
Will's Red CoatTom Ryan8h 23m4.5 (2.3K)$26 · $0.00
South! - The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917 (Annotated)Ernest Henry Shackleton17h 9m4.4 (14.3K)$2 · $0.00
Little PrincesConor Grennan9h 38m4.3 (27.6K)$29 · $0.00
We are Soldiers StillHarold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway7h 46m4.4 (2.4K)$26 · $0.00
The Road to San DonatoRobert Cocuzzo7h 29m4.4 (397)$17 · $0.00
Around the World in 60 SecondsNuseir Yassin7h 48m4.4 (836)$26 · $0.00
The Midwest Survival GuideCharlie Berens6h 6m4.3 (4.9K)$24 · $0.00
The Home of the Blizzard (Annotated)Sir Douglas Mawson19h 2m4.3 (1.3K)$2 · $0.00
Local WondersTed Kooser6h 21m4.4 (978)$14 · $0.00
Over the Edge of the WorldLaurence Bergreen6h 14m4.3 (23.2K)$24 · $0.00
What Really Happened In WuhanSharri Markson16h 28m4.3 (4.8K)$40 · $0.00
American RambleNeil King10h 58m4.3 (2.8K)$29 · $0.00
In The Footsteps Of RamaVikrant Pande, Neelesh Kulkarni9h 45m4.3 (778)$16 · $0.00
Never Leave the Dogs BehindBrianna Madia5h 37m4.2 (7.8K)$24 · $0.00
Touch the Top of the WorldErik Weihenmayer11h 18m4.3 (2.9K)$20 · $0.00
Mud, Sweat, and TearsBear Grylls9h 25m4.2 (20K)$29 · $0.00
NorthboundNaomi Arnold7h 21m4.3 (669)$24 · $0.00
China RoadRob Gifford10h 35m4.2 (4.7K)$20 · $0.00
Love, AfricaJeffrey Gettleman11h 55m4.2 (3.1K)$29 · $0.00
You may also like
The Last of the PlainsmenZane Grey7h 38m4.0 (1.3K)$2.30
A Passion in the DesertHonoré de Balzac35m3.7 (1.2K)$2.30
The Man-Eaters of TsavoJohn Henry Patterson7h 35m4.1 (6.9K)$1 · $0.00
The Last of the Plainsmen (Western Classic) (Annotated)Zane Grey8h 31m4.0 (1.1K)$2 · $0.00
THE LAST OF THE PLAINSMENZane Grey8h 20m3.9 (1.9K)$1 · $0.00
Through the Brazilian Wilderness - An Epic Adventure of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific ExpeditionTheodore Roosevelt12h 4m4.0 (1.7K)$1 · $0.00
The Lost WorldArthur Conan Doyle6h 28m3.9 (74.5K)$2 · $0.00
The Home of the Blizzard (Annotated)Sir Douglas Mawson19h 2m4.3 (1.3K)$2 · $0.00
Bartram's TravelsWilliam Bartram16h 46m4.1 (868)$2 · $0.00
AquanautRick Stanton12h 22m4.4 (2.6K)$23 · $0.00
The Lost WorldArthur Conan Doyle8h 19m4.0 (92.2K)$11 · $0.00
Cannibal-land: Adventures with a camera in the New HebridesMartin Johnson4h 15m$2.30
In the Amazon JungleAlgot Lange5h 5m3.7 (270)$2 · $0.00
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia Vol. 2George Grey13h 41m4.0 (17)$2 · $0.00
Lodges in the WildernessW. C. Scully5h 15m$2 · $0.00
How to Survive Against the OddsWondery5h 59m4.3 (110)$24 · $0.00
Lake NgamiCharles John Andersson18h 2m$1 · $0.00
The Moving Picture Girls Under PalmsLaura Lee Hope4h 51m3.6 (20)$2.30
Long OddsH. Rider Haggard1h 52m3.3 (127)$2 · $0.00
Billy MinkThornton W. Burgess2h 9m4.2 (199)$2.30