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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 August 2011
      02 June 2011
      ISBN:
      9780511920295
      9781108027977
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511920295
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.1kg, 880 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Geography, Historical Geography, History, History of Science: General Interest, Latin American History
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Latin American Studies
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    Subjects:
    Geography, Historical Geography, History, History of Science: General Interest, Latin American History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Latin American Studies
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    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 5 (1821) describes Humboldt's travels through the Orinoco basin and across several sets of rapids, and the indigenous people, missionaries, animals and plants he encountered on the journey.

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