Voyage fluvial du Tieté à l'Amazone

Hércules Florence (1804-1879), born in Nice, arrived in Rio de Janeiro in 1824 and signed up to the Langsdorff expedition after seeing an advert in a newspaper.

Florence's work depicts the indigenous peoples, nature, settlements, and buildings of the interior of Brazil, and is illustrated with a number of his drawings.

Apart from Langdorff as leader and Adrien Taunay as illustrator, other members of the expedition included zoologist Édouard Ménétries, botanist Ludwig Riedel, Christian Hasse, astronomer Nester Rubtsov [pt], and Karl von Drais.

[2]: XVIII, XXV The book was translated into Portuguese by Viscount Taunay and published in 1875 in the Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics under the title Esboço da Viagem Feita pelo Sr. Langsdorff ao Interior do Brasil, desde setembro de 1825 até março de 1829.

Escripto em original francez pelo 2o desenhista da commissão scientifica Hercules Florence.