Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 - Volume 1 - Hardcover
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 - Volume 1 - Hardcover
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by Alexander Von Humboldt (Author), Aime Bonpland (Author), Thomasina Ross (Editor)
Alexander von Humboldt, sometimes called 'the last man who knew everything', was an extraordinary polymath of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1798 he received unprecedented permission from the Spanish Crown to explore its American and Caribbean colonies, which he did from 1799-1804. This is the journal of those explorations, in which he extensively covers the region's topography, geology, fauna and flora, anthropology and comparative linguistics. Volume I covers his preparations, stop at Tenerife, landfall at Cumaná and journeys inland in what is now Venezuela.
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