Across Unknown South America

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [7], viii-xxiii, [1], 1-377, [3]; [5], vi-xvi, 1-439, [1] pp. Blue publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and gilt devices on each front board, gilt lettering and a gilt star on each spine; top edges gilt. Title pages printed in orange and black. Each volume with a frontispiece and a folding map, both volumes have a total of eight plates in color, and numerous illustrations from photographs. Oxford DNB, T. C. Farmbrough, revised, "Landor, (Arnold) Henry Savage (1867-1924)". The grandson of Walter Savage Landor, Henry Savage Landor was a painter and travel-writer. His most famous work is "In the Forbidden Land", in which he recounts his capture and torture after entering Tibet. He spent time with the Ainu people of Japan, and traveled to other countries in Asia like Korea and India. Landor climbed Mount Lumpa in Nepal and joined the Boxer uprising in 1900 for a brief time. Between 1903 and 1911 he traveled in the Middle East and in central Africa, and explored the Mato Grosso of Brazil. The author was elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1892, and a member of the Royal Institution in 1897. A beautiful, wonderfully illustrated set of Savage-Landor's sojourn around South America (which included stops in Peru and Brazil, and brief histories of a few indigenous peoples in the region).