A Missionary on the Amazon
Derek Severn recounts how, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a priest from Bohemia served the Society of Jesus in the more remote parts of Brazil and Peru.
With one exception the great names of exploration do not belong to the South American continent - not because the achievement was less than elsewhere but because colonization, in the east by Portugal and in the west by Spain, preceded the age of the printing press and the reading public.
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