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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 - Volume 3 (Hardcover)
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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 - Volume 3 (Hardcover)
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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 III sees him recording more information on
Venezuela, visiting Cuba where he also writes about local politics
and speaks out fervently against the slave trade; he then sails for
Colombia. The volume ends with a comprehensive geognostic
description of the northern part of South America.
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