White Waters and Black (The Natural History Library N5) by MacCreagh, Gordon, and Oliver, Dr. James A. (Foreword by) - 1961

Garden City NY.: Doubleday Anchor by arr. w/ Appleton-Century-Crofts., 1961. First edition. 1st Anchor edition.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Top and right page block minor foxing.. Palacios, Rafael (Map drawn by).. 1 335 p. Includes: illustrations, maps. Mass-market (rack) Paperback, slightly wider and taller. 2 B&W photo sections. Map frontispiece. Published with The American Museum of Natural History, this recounts the expedition launched by 8 greenhorn scientists setting off at the headwaters of the Amazon River, over 2 years, down the Rio Blanco and up the Rio Negro. They were 6 eminent professors including a self-appointed Director, an Entomologist, a Botanist, an Ichthyologist, and a Statistician intent on gathering biological specimens of this newly explored territory. It stands as an account of how NOT to conduct an expedition. Bickering dwindled the party to 2 survivors, one being the author MacCreagh, b.1886, Indiana-d.1953, St. Petersburg, Florida.