Up the Orinoco and Down the Magdalena
By H. J. Mozans, A. M., Ph. D. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, gilt top, uncut edges. Price $3.00 net. By mail $3.20.
"His pages breathe the poetry of travel, the romance of Sir John Mandeville, tempered by the moderation of scientific research. This is a very model of a travel book, and the author is to be congratulated on a result that will insure a wide public for the promised sequel."—The World, London, England.
"The book is beyond question the most valuable of all the books on South America which has appeared. It is as interesting as a novel, full of entertaining anecdote and of real value to the student. It contains some maps and excellent illustrations from photographs."—The Call, San Francisco, Cal.
"This is a remarkably interesting book, leading us through a region little known to the majority of English travelers, and possessing, in consequence, that charm of novelty in which works of the same description are occasionally deficient."—The Standard, London, England.
"The reader will find this trip with the author, "Up the Orinoco and Down the Magdalena," as agreeable and instructive as a personally conducted visit to the heart of the Andes."—Evening Transcript, Boston, Mass.
"This volume, remarkable alike for its instructive qualities and the excellent composition, will open a vista of delight to the reader who relishes travel."—The News, Charleston, S. C.
"Dr. Mozans sees the country with the trained and experienced eye of a world traveler and with the well stocked mind of the lover of literature. The past is linked with the present, the unknown with the known, and poetically appreciated in a way that is most delightful."—The Tribune, Chicago, Ill.
"The author, a traveler of many years of experience, who has explored strange corners of the globe in every zone, combines with accurate observation and a facile power of description a knowledge of history that enables him to illuminate his work with something of the romance that attaches to the tales of the conquistadores in whose trail he followed on this journey. The resulting book is one that gives the reader a complete new set of impressions and ideas concerning Venezuela and Columbia and the great rivers that water these still unsettled lands."—The Times Star, Cincinnati, Ohio.
"Not since the appearance of Humboldt's "Personal Narrative of Travels in the Equinoctial Regions of America" has the fertile and romantic region of Tierra Firma—the scene of the exploits of some of this most illustrious of the Conquistadores—been so fully and so vividly described as by Doctor Mozans in his instructive and fascinating volume "Up the Orinoco and Down the Magdalena.""—Bulletin of the Pan-American Union.