Across the Andes - Free Audiobook

Across the Andes - Free Audiobook

Author(s): Charles Johnson Post,

Language: English

1 / 27The Tropics (poem)

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27 Chapter(s)
  • 1. The Tropics (poem)
  • 2. CHAPTER I OLD PANAMA, AGAMEMNON, AND THE GENIAL PICAROON
  • 3. CHAPTER II THE FIGHTING WHALE AND CHINAMEN IN THE CHICKEN COOP
  • 4. CHAPTER III THROUGH A TROPICAL QUARANTINE
  • 5. CHAPTER IV A FORCED MARCH ACROSS THE DESERT OF ATACAMA
  • 6. CHAPTER V AREQUIPA THE CITY OF CHURCHES
  • 7. CHAPTER VI THROUGH THE INCA COUNTRY
  • 8. CHAPTER VII OUT OF LA PAZ BY PACK TRAIN
  • 9. CHAPTER VIII THE BACK TRAIL AMONG THE AYMARAS
  • 10. CHAPTER IX OVER THE FIRST GREAT PASS
  • 11. CHAPTER X THE TOLL GATE AND MAPIRI
  • 12. CHAPTER XI WAITING FOR THE LECCOS
  • 13. CHAPTER XII OFF ON THE LONG DRIFT
  • 14. CHAPTER XIII THE LECCO TRIBE
  • 15. CHAPTER XIV DRIFTING DOWN THE RIO MAPIRI
  • 16. CHAPTER XV SHOOTING THE RATAMA
  • 17. CHAPTER XVI OPENING UP THE JUNGLE
  • 18. CHAPTER XVII TWENTY-THREE DAYS AGAINST THE CURRENT
  • 19. CHAPTER XVIII BY PACK MULE THROUGH THE JUNGLE
  • 20. CHAPTER XIX THE INDIAN UPRISING
  • 21. CHAPTER XX AMBUSHED BY LADRONES
  • 22. CHAPTER XXI THE MUSIC OF THE AYMARÁS
  • 23. CHAPTER XXII BACK HOME
  • 24. CHAPTER XXIII OFF ACROSS THE CONTINENT IN A BATALON
  • 25. CHAPTER XXIV THROUGH THE RUBBER COUNTRY
  • 26. CHAPTER XXV A NEW CREW AND ANOTHER BATALON
  • 27. CHAPTER XXVI THE FALLS OF THE MADEIRA AND HOME

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“The legion that never was listed,” The soft-lilting rhythm and song, The starlight, and shadowy tropics, The palms—and all that belong; The unknown that ever persisted In dreams that were epics of bliss, Of glory and gain without effort— And the visions have faded, like this. -- (Excerpt from the opening poem, "The Tropics"

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