The Travels and Researches of Alexander von Humboldt: Being a Condensed Narrative of his Journeys in the Equinoctial Regions of America, and in Asiatic Russia; Together with Analyses of his More Important Investigations

by William MacGillivray

Overview

In 1832, William MacGillivray published this abridged version of the explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt's Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799–1804, which had appeared in a seven-volume English translation between 1814 and 1829. MacGillivray's edition, intended for the general public, also includes Humboldt's accounts of his explorations of the Ural Mountains and Caspian Sea. Humboldt became a major figure in physical geography as a result of his arduous five-year trip to explore Central and South America. This book offers a brief biographical sketch of the scientist and covers his exciting journeys from the Island of Tenerife across the Atlantic Ocean to Caracas, and up the Orinoco River by canoe. Humboldt fights mosquitoes in dense rain forests and climbs Andean peaks in Peru without mountain gear, taking detailed notes at every stage.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108004626
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/24/2009
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.94(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Voyage from Corunna to Tenerife; 3. Island of Tenerife; 4. Passage from Tenerife to Cumana; 5. Cumana; 6. Residence at Cumana; 7. Missions of the Chaymas; 8. Excursion continued, and return to Cumana; 9. Indians of New Andalusia; 10. Residence at Cumana; 11. Voyage from Cumana to Guayra; 12. City of Caraccas and surrounding district; 13. Earthquakes of Caraccas; 14. Journey from Craccas to the lake of Valencia; 15. Journey across the Llanos, from Aragua to San Fernando; 16. Voyage down the Rio Apure; 17. Voyage up the Orinoco; 18. Voyage up the Orinoco continued; 19. Route from Esmerelda to Angostura; 20. Journey across the Llanos to New Barcelona; 21. Passage to Havanna, and residence in Cuba; 22. Voyage from Cuba to Carthagena; 23. Brief account of the journey from Carthagena to Quito and Mexico; 24. Description of New Spain or Mexico; 25. Statistical account of New Spain continued; 26. Mines of New Spain; 27. Passage from Vera Cruz to Cuba and Philadelphia, and voyage to Europe; 28. Journey to Asia.