Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent: During the Years 1799-1804: Volume 6

Alexander von Humboldt, Aimà Bonpland, Translated by Helen Maria Williams

ISBN 10: 1108027989 / ISBN 13: 9781108027984

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 2011

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1st edition. 883 pages. 8.43x5.51x2.28 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent: During the Years 1799-1804: Volume 6
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date de parution: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1108027989
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781108027984
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Brand New
• Poids: 1,09 kilogramme

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Synopsis

A seven-volume English translation, published 1814–1829, of a major work describing Humboldt's 1799–1805 scientific expedition to South America.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 Aimé 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.