Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Across unknown South America
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Place
Date
1913
Physical Description
2 volumes frontispieces (volumes 2, colour) plates (some colour) portraits, 2 maps (1 folded) 26 cm
Language
English
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Public Access Text
[Keywords: Travel literature; Exploration literature]
The greater part of the work is devoted to the author's explorations in Brazil. The appendix lists the principal plants, birds, mammals, fish, reptiles and snakes of Brazil, and provides vocabularies of the Bororo, Apiacar, Mundurucu, Campas or Antis.
Subject Notes
Arnold Henry Savage Landor (2 June 1865 - 26 December 1924) was an English painter, explorer, writer, and anthropologist. Landor was born to Charles Savage Landor in Florence, Italy, where he spent his childhood.
He left for Paris at age fifteen to study at the AcadΘmie Julian directed by Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre. He then traveled the world, including America, Japan, and Korea, painting many landscapes and portraits. Upon his return to England, he was invited to Balmoral by Queen Victoria to recount his adventures and show his drawings. He later traveled to Nepal and Tibet, telling of his experiences in two books: In the Forbidden Land (1898) and Tibet and Nepal (1905).
When he learned about the Boxer Rebellion in China he went to Peking (now spelled Beijing) to join the victory parade, afterward writing China and the Allies. In 1901 he traveled from Russia to India, riding on horseback through Persia, publishing the account of that journey in the book Across Coveted Lands. A journey to the Philippine Islands resulted in another book, The Gems of the East (1904).
During the 1900s he visited Abyssinia and painted a portrait of the king Menelik II. Landor's book Across Widest Africa was published in 1906. During 1911 and 1912 he made an eventful expedition to the Mato Grosso in Brazil and in 1913 published Across Unknown South America.
He had an active role in World War I, designing tanks and airships. Eventually, he retired to write his autobiography in Florence, where he died in 1924. He is buried in the English Cemetery, Florence.--Wikipedia, June 2021.
Collection Type
General Collection
Copyright
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Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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