South America. Social, industrial and political: a twenty five thousand mile journey in search of information in the Istmus of Panama and the lands of Equator, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Tierra del Fuego, the Falklands, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, the Guianas, Venezuela, and the Orinoco Basin. The resources and possibilities of the various countries, the life and customs of the people, their governments, business methods and trade. - Carpenter, Frank G (The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1903)