On the Banks of the Amazon, by W.H.G. Kingston.
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This is a quite long book, very well written, about a trip down the
Amazon. There is rather a lot of "Natural History", but not too much,
because it has all been made easy to follow, and is very interesting.
All sorts of interesting things happen on this voyage.
The copy used for digitisation had a rather furry and small typeface.
Not one of the clearest we have ever seen. Consequently it was rather
heavy labour trying to iron out the misreads and typos, and it may well
be that some remain, though nowhere near the prescribed limit of 99.95%.
There are 132,948 words in the book, so 1 in 2000 means that we must
have less than 66 errors still remaining, which I am sure is the case.
It is a rather curious thing that one is reminded at times of
Ballantyne's "Martin Rattler," written very much earlier, even down to
to the presence of a "recluse". That doesn't mean you won't enjoy the
book just as much as you might have enjoyed "Martin Rattler." Best, as
always, as an audiobook.
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