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9781108027977

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent

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  • ISBN13:

    9781108027977

  • ISBN10:

    1108027970

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-06-02
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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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 Aim#xE9; 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 (1814-25), consists of seven volumes and was published in London between 1814 and 1829. Volume 7 (1829) focuses mainly on the geography of Cuba, its slave population and sugar production, and ends with Humboldt's experiences in Colombia.

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The mouth of the Rio Anaveni. Peak of Uniana. Mission of Atures. Cataract, or Raudal of Mapara. Islet of Surupamana, and Uirapuri
Raudal of Garcita. Maypures. Cataracts of Quittuna. Mouth of the Vichada and Zama. Rock of Aricagua. Siquita
San Fernando de Atabapo. San Balthasar. The Rivers Temi and Tuamini. Javita. Portage from the Tuamini to the Rio Negro
Notes to Book VII
The Rio Negro. Limits of Brazil. The Cassiquiare. Bifurcation of the Oroonoko
The Upper Oroonoko, from Esmeralda to the confluence of the Guaviara. Second passage across the cataracts of Atures and Maypures. Lower Oroonoko between the mouth of the Rio Apure and Angustora, the capital of Spanish Guyana
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