Title: The cloud forest;
Authors: Matthiessen, Peter; Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection.
Date: 1961
Publisher: Viking Press,
Physical description: 280 p. illus. 22 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: F
Abstract: Peter Matthiessen's report of his expedition crisscrossing 10,000 miles of the South American wilderness, from the Amazon rain forests to Machu Picchu, high in the Andes, down to Tierra del Fuego and back. He followed the trails of old explorers, encountered river bandits, wild tribesmen, and the evidence of ancient ruins, and discovered fossils in the depths of the Peruvian jungle.
Contents: 1. Sargasso Sea and southward -- Amazonas -- Sierra -- Tierra del Fuego -- Mato Grosso -- 2. Beyond black drunken river.
Notes: A duplicate copy of this title was part of the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection, but was not retained.
Subject headings (LCSH): South America--Description and travel--1951-.; South America--Description and travel.