"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.
Along the Andes and Down the Amazon
By H. J. Mozans, A. M., Ph. D. With an Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, gilt top, uncut edges. Price $3.50 net. By mail $3.70
"It was a great project and a grand journey, but we do not recall any writer who could describe it so delightfully as Dr. Mozans. He has not only an irresistible literary charm, but he is so saturated with knowledge of what he writes about that all he writes has an irresistible interest."—The Herald, Glasgow, Scotland.
"Readers of Dr. Mozans' book have been impressed by the remarkable, almost amazing, erudition shown in it. It has also a modernity that is unusual in scholarly persons. Dr. Mozans seems to have been everywhere and studied everything. His especial interest in life has been thoroughly to acquaint himself with the history, antiquities and people, past and present, of northern South America."—The Literary Digest, New York City.