THROUGH THE BRAZILIAN WILDERNESS
By Theodore Roosevelt

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and John Bickers, jbickers@ihug.co.nz



THROUGH THE BRAZILIAN WILDERNESS

BY

THEODORE ROOSEVELT



PREFACE

This is an account of a zoo-geographic reconnaissance through the
Brazilian hinterland.

The official and proper title of the expedition is that given it
by the Brazilian Government: Expedicao Scientifica Roosevelt-
Rondon. When I started from the United States, it was to make an
expedition, primarily concerned with mammalogy and ornithology,
for the American Museum of Natural History of New York. This was
undertaken under the auspices of Messrs. Osborn and Chapman,
acting on behalf of the Museum. In the body of this work I
describe how the scope of the expedition was enlarged, and how it
was given a geographic as well as a zoological character, in