The Putumayo, the Devil's Paradise / Travels in the Peruvian Amazon Region and an Account of the Atrocities Committed upon the Indians Therein

A journalist and traveller documents systematic exploitation and brutality inflicted on indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon during rubber extraction, detailing forced labour, chains, starvation, torture, and killings while tracing river regions and affected peoples. The account combines firsthand observation, illustrations and maps, editorial commentary that criticizes absentee capital and commercial practices, and official extracts from a consular inquiry that corroborate many allegations. Chapters move from geographic description to intimate reports of abuses, investigations of company conduct, and reflections on moral and legal implications, aiming to expose how commercial gain devastated native societies.