Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
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Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (French: La Jangada - Huit Cents lieues sur l'Amazone) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1881. It has also been published as The Giant Raft.[1]
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Author | Jules Verne |
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Original title | La Jangada - Huit Cents lieues sur l'Amazone |
Illustrator | Léon Benett |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Series | The Extraordinary Voyages #21 |
Genre | Adventure novel |
Publisher | Pierre-Jules Hetzel |
Publication date | 1881 |
Published in English | 1881 |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Preceded by | The Steam House |
Followed by | Godfrey Morgan |
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It is an adventure novel, involving how Joam Garral, a ranch owner living near the Peruvian-Brazilian border on the Amazon River, is forced to travel downstream when his past catches up with him. Most of the novel is situated on a large jangada (a Brazilian timber raft) that is used by Garral and his family to float to Belém, at the river's mouth. Many aspects of the raft, scenery, and journey are described in detail.