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PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS TO THE EQUINOCTIAL REGIONS OF THE NEW CONTINENT
DURING THE YEARS 1799-1804 |
| By: |
Alexander von Humboldt, Aime Bonpland, Helen Maria Williams (Trans) |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1108027989 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781108027984 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION |
| Pub. date: |
2 June, 2011 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - Latin American Studies |
| Pages: |
874 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
A seven-volume English translation, published 1814-1829, of a major work describing Humboldt's 1799-1805 scientific expedition to South America. |
| Synopsis: |
The Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was one of the most famous explorers of his generation. Charles Darwin called him 'the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived'. In 1799, Humboldt and the botanist Aime Bonpland secured permission from the Spanish crown for a voyage to South America. They left from Madrid and spent five years exploring the continent. Humboldt reported his findings in a total of thirty volumes, published in French over a period of more than twenty years beginning in 1805. This English translation by Helen Maria Williams of one important component of Humboldt's account, the Relation historique du voyage (1814-1825), consists of seven volumes and was published in London between 1814 and 1829. Volume 6 (1826) summarises many of Humboldt's findings about the North-East of South America, its topography and geology, and compares the societies of the mainland with those of the West Indies. |
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2 maps |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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