Personal Narrative of Travels - Volume 2

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-108-02794-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration

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 2 (1814) contains extensive physical observations of latitude, longitude, weather conditions and ocean temperature recorded during the voyage, and describes the expedition's arrival in Venezuela.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Humboldt, Alexander von

Bonpland, Aimé

Weitere Mitwirkende

Williams, Helen Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Geographie, Landkarten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Historische Geographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Book I: 3. Passage from Teneriffe to the coasts of South America. The Island of Tobago. Arrival at Cumana; Book II: 4. First abode at Cumana. Banks of the Manzanares; 5. Peninsula of Araya. Salt-marshes. Ruins of the castle of San Giacomo.