Jules Verne's Adventure on the Amazon'That freedom was a right, that the very first of the natural rights of man was to be free and to belong only to himself, would seem to be self-evident, and yet thousands of years had to pass before the glorious thought was generally accepted, and the nations of the earth had the courage to proclaim it.'- Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon, Jules Verne Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Jules Verne tells the story of journey on a giant raft with Joam Ga