Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon

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Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon is a two-volume publication by two young USN lieutenants William Lewis Herndon (vol. 1) and Lardner A. Gibbon (vol. 2).^[1] Herndon split the main party in two so that he and Gibbon could explore two different areas of the Valley of the Amazon.