1847年4月1日, 有一位法國海軍軍醫,克雷沃(Jules-Nicolas Crevaux),參加了亞馬遜河和奧里諾科河(Orenoque)流域的勘察活動,後來在1880年,法國的《環球旅遊雜誌》(Le Tour du Monde)刊印了一系列的石版畫,描繪他的探險奇遇。1882年4月,他由阿根廷的布宜諾斯艾利斯出發,前往亞馬遜河,途中被托巴族(Toba)印第安人殺害。
Alain Gheerbrant (27 December 1920 – 21 February 2013) was a French writer, editor, poet and explorer, noted for his expedition inside the basins of Amazonian rivers. From 1948 to 1950, Alain Gheerbrant led the Orinoco-Amazon expedition. He travelled through the basin of both rivers for two years and wrote of his travels in L'Expédition Orénoque-Amazone (1952). He is considered the first Westerner who had peaceful contact with the Yanomami Indians and also the first to cross the Parima Mountains between 1948 and 1950. In 1952, he directed a documentary film called Des hommes qu'on appelle sauvages.
He has produced numerous reports all over the world and published Dictionnaire des symboles in 1982, a collaborative work with Jean Chevalier, an encyclopaedia of cultural anthropology about the symbolism of myths and folklore, which was republished 19 times between 1982 and 1997. He has authored an illustrated pocket book for the "Découvertes Gallimard" collection, called L'Amazone, un géant blessé (1988), which has been translated into eleven languages, including English. In 1995, he released his memoir entitled La Transversale.