Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 - Volume 2

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 - Volume 2 - Hardcover

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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 - Volume 2
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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 - Volume 2 - Hardcover

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 - Volume 2 - Hardcover

by Alexander Von Humboldt , Aime Bonpland
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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 II covers the period in which he undertake a major exploration of the River Orinoco, as far as the borders of Brazil, finishing in Angostura, then the capital of Spanish Guiana.
ISBN9781781393314
Author Alexander Von Humboldt , Aime Bonpland
PublisherBenediction Classics
GenreBiography, Education, and Travel
FormatHardcover
PublishedDecember 2012
LanguageENG- English
Pages584
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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