Across the Andes
Across the Andes by Charles Johnson Post is available here as the complete text, split into 470 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Across the Andes
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II The Fighting Whale and Chinamen in the Chicken Coop
- Chapter III Through a Tropical Quarantine
- Chapter IV A Forced March Across the Desert of Atacama
- Chapter V Arequipa the City of Churches
- Chapter VI Through the Inca Country
- Chapter VII Out of la Paz by Pack Train
- Chapter VIII The Back Trail Among the Aymaras
- Chapter IX Over the First Great Pass
- Chapter X The Toll Gate and Mapiri
- Chapter XI Waiting for the Leccos
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII
- Chapter XIV Drifting Down the Rio Mapiri
- Chapter XV Shooting the Ratama
- Chapter XVI Opening Up the Jungle
- Chapter XVII Twenty-Three Days Against the Current
- Chapter XVIII By Pack Mule Through the Jungle
- Chapter XIX The Indian Uprising
- Chapter XX Ambushed by Ladrones
- Chapter XXI The Music of the Aymarás
- Chapter XXII Back Home
- Chapter XXIII Off Across the Continent in a Batalon
- Chapter XXIV Through the Rubber Country
- Chapter XXV A New Crew and Another Batalon
- Chapter XXVI The Falls of the Madeira and Home
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