Events: detail
The Amazon: Naturalists' Paradise and Rubber Bonanza
- Hosted by:
- Canning House
- Speaker:
-
John Hemming
- Starts:
- May 13, 2008 at 06:30 pm
- Ends:
- May 13, 2008 at 07:30 pm
- Location:
- Canning House, , 2 Belgrave Square, London, SW1X 8PJ United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
John Hemming tells about three remarkable young English naturalists who went to the Amazon in the mid-nineteenth century – with no money or education – and became some of the greatest botanists and collectors this country has ever produced: Henry Walter Bates, Alfred Russel Wallace and Richard Spruce. One of their many achievements was to bring back the cinchona tree with its malaria palliative quinine. Then came the amazing rubber boom, that filled Manaus and Iquitos with flamboyant millionaires but brought misery to seringueiros and Indians.
- Registration required:
- Yes
- Free:
- No
Additional information
Tickets: £6.81 (£8.00 incl. VAT) / Members: £4.25 (£4.99 incl. VAT)
For more information
- Contact person:
- Canning House
- Phone:
- 020 7235 2303
- Email:
- enquiries [ at ] canninghouse.com
- Website:
- The Amazon: Naturalists' Paradise and Rubber Bonanza
