Herndon and Gibbon, Lieutenants, United States Navy : The First North American Explorers of the Amazon Valley

True life South American Amazon adventure; Author investigates accounts of Navy Lieutenants Herndon and Gibbon's 4000 mile scientific Amazon expedition of the mysterious and treacherous Amazon River; The Author retraces their steps from personal journals where Navy Lieutenants William Lewis Herndon and Lardner Gibbon are assigned the unusual task as a naval officers to map the Amazon River from it's source to its end in the Atlantic Ocean; Braving the altitudes of the Andes to the deep mysterious and dangerous savage filled jungles of the Amazon. Over 20 years of research and collection of actual accounts by Author and Historian Normand Klare, including personal investigation into the Amazon himself, establishes this as an epic not to be matched.Klare, Normand E. is the author of 'Herndon and Gibbon, Lieutenants, United States Navy : The First North American Explorers of the Amazon Valley', published 2006 under ISBN 9780976440314 and ISBN 0976440318.