Algot Lange

Algot Lange, c. 1910 – c. 1915

Åke Algot Lange (born Åke Mortimer Lange; 10 May 1884 – 21 February 1961) was a Swedish-American explorer who wrote books about the Amazon.[1]

  1. ^ "Algot Lange, Brazilian Explorer, Can Find No One to Buy His Prehistoric Pottery. Valuable Collection, but No Room for It, Say Natural History Museum Heads". The New York Times. April 7, 1915. Retrieved 2009-12-05. If Algot Lange, the explorer, does not alter his vehemently expressed intention, and if the Harbor Police do not interfere, 5,000 pieces and fragments of prehistoric pottery dug from the mud of a sunken island at the mouth of the Amazon River will find a second watery resting place at the bottom of the East River.