In 1799, Alexander von Humboldt and Aime Bonpland set out to
determine whether the Orinoco River connected with the Amazon. But
what started as a trip to investigate a relatively minor
geographical controversy became the basis of a five-year
exploration throughout South America, Mexico, and Cuba. The
discoveries amassed by von Humboldt and Bonpland were staggering,
and much of today's knowledge of tropical zoology, botany,
geography, and geology can be traced back to von Humboldt's
numerous records of these expeditions. One of these accounts,
"Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples
of the Americas," firmly established Alexander von Humboldt as the
founder of Mesoamerican studies. In "Views of the
Cordilleras"--first published in French between 1810 and 1813--von
Humboldt weaves together magnificently engraved drawings and
detailed texts to achieve multifaceted views of cultures and
landscapes across the Americas. In doing so, he offers an
alternative perspective on the New World, combating presumptions of
its belatedness and inferiority by arguing that the "old" and the
"new" world are of the same geological age. This critical edition
of "Views of the Cordilleras"--the second volume in the Alexander
von Humboldt in English series--contains a new, unabridged English
translation of von Humboldt's French text, as well as annotations,
a bibliography, and all sixty-nine plates from the original
edition, many of them in color.
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