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

Biography

Lange was born in

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as Åke Mortimer Lange, but later he took his father's name as his middle name. His parents were the opera singer Algot Lange and the pianist and author

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Forstén. He collected 2,000 pottery fragments from Pacoval Island in Lake Arary on Marajo Island, which were acquired by the

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in 1915. Lange immigrated to the United States in 1904 and became a U.S. citizen in 1915. He died in 1961 in New York City.

Publications

*''In the Amazon jungle: adventures in remote parts of the upper Amazon river'' (1912) with J. Odell Hauser and Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh *''The lower Amazon: a narrative of explorations in the little known regions'' (1914): Supplements ''In the Amazon jungle'' "with a most readable account of the new explorations and discoveries in this enormously rich but little known country. Profusely illustrated."

References

External links

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