Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America: 1799-1804 (eBook)

Expedition in Central & South America

Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland (Autoren)

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2023
1320 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
406-633957185-3 (EAN)

Infos

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, during the years 1799-1804 is a three-volume account of an expedition taken from Spain to South America by naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland. The authors visited Venezuela, Cuba, Andes, Mexico and USA where they collected the material and made extensive notes. Their joint effort to record a memoir of this great expedition is quite interesting and valuable because it contain specific documentation of their scientific observations, but it also presents an intriguing and romantic work with many poetic descriptions of nature and the people who lived in the areas he visited.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.12.2023
• Übersetzer: Aimé Bonpland
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Sport- / Aktivreisen ► Südamerika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Andean mountain journey • a walk in the woods • Cuban historical travel • cultural encounters 1800s • early 19th century exploration • Four Lost Cities • Into the wild • naturalist travel memoir • North America naturalists • romantic nature descriptions • scientific observations nature • South America expedition • The Invention of Nature • The River of Doubt • Underland • Venezuela colonial history