Illusions of power: vision, technology and the geographical exploration of the Amazon, 1924–1925
Illusions of power: vision, technology and the geographical exploration of the Amazon, 1924–1925
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权力的幻象：愿景、技术和亚马逊地理探索，1924-1925
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2007
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L. Martins
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1924年，美国探险家亚历山大·汉密尔顿·赖斯（Alexander Hamilton Rice）向《地理评论》（geographic Review）提交了一篇论文，描述了他第七次前往亚马逊的探险计划，这是他在1901年首次探索的地区（图1）。汉密尔顿·赖斯第七次——也是最雄心勃勃的一次——对亚马逊的探险不仅配备了最新的测量技术，包括专门建造的用于航空摄影的水上飞机；它也是第一个尝试在热带地区使用短波系统进行无线电通信的飞机。跟随洪堡、贝茨和舍姆伯格等欧洲先驱者的脚步，汉密尔顿·赖斯的目标是到达布兰科河的源头，也就是今天巴西与委内瑞拉边境的罗赖马州。《地理评论》编辑、美国地理学会会长以赛亚·鲍曼是这次考察的热心支持者。他在给赖斯的回信中写道：
In 1924, the American explorer Alexander Hamilton Rice submitted a paper to the Geographical Review describing plans for his seventh expedition to the Amazon, a region he had first explored in 1901 (Figure 1). Hamilton Rice’s seventh – and most ambitious – expedition to the Amazon was not only equipped with the latest surveying technology, including a purpose-built hydroplane equipped for aerial photography; it was also the first to attempt radio communication in the tropics on a short-wave system. Following in the footsteps of European pioneers, such as Humboldt, Bates and Schomburgk, Hamilton Rice aimed to reach the headwaters of the Rio Branco, in what is today the state of Roraima, on Brazil’s frontier with Venezuela. Isaiah Bowman, editor of the Geographical Review and director of the American Geographical Society, was an enthusiastic supporter of the expedition. As he wrote in response to Rice: