Verne, Jules

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (1881)

Joam Garral, a ranch owner who lives near the Peruvian-Brazilian border on the Amazon River travels with his daughter on a raft called Jangada to Belém where she is going to marry Manuel Valdez in the presence of his invalid mother. For this journey he builds a huge raft on which a village is floating with houses, domestic animals as well as church. ... (more)