Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon is a classic adventure novel written by Jules Verne and first published in 1881. This novel involves how Joam Garral, a ranch owner who lives near the Peruvian-Brazilian border on the Amazon River, is forced to travel down-stream when his past catches up with him. Most of the novel is situated on a large jangada, a Brazilian timber raft, that is used by Garral and his family to float to Belém at the river's mouth.