Open AccessAlfred Wallace's Echoes in the Amazon
Author(s) -
Geraldo Mendes dos Santos
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
world journal of social science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2329-9355
pISSN - 2329-9347
DOI - 10.5430/wjss.v6n1p15
Subject(s) - amazon rainforest , vision , trips architecture , naturalism , history , fish <actinopterygii> , art history , environmental ethics , geography , sociology , philosophy , anthropology , fishery , engineering , ecology , epistemology , transport engineering , biology
This article deals with some aspects of Alfred Russel Wallace's historic journey to the Amazon between 1848 and1852. In it are highlighted the impressions that this naturalist has pointed out about the region, cities, indigenouscustoms and especially about fish of the Black River. More objectively, the article discusses the reasons for the trip,the two trips to the Uaupés River, and the strategic visions Wallace presented about food production in that distantregion. At the end is outlined a profile of the personality of this famous traveler and the lessons he left to posterity,especially to the young naturalists and scientists.