Personal narrative
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Personal narrative
（Penguin classics）
Penguin Books, 1995
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Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent
Personal narrative of a journey to the equinoctial regions of the new continent
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
One of the greatest nineteenth-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won international fame for his scientific discoveries, his observations of Native American peoples and his detailed descriptions of the flora and fauna of the 'new continent'. The first to draw and speculate on Aztec art, to observe reverse polarity in magnetism and to discover why America is called America, his writings profoundly influenced the course of Victorian culture, causing Darwin to reflect: 'He alone gives any notion of the feelings which are raised in the mind on first entering the Tropics'.
Table of Contents
Translated by Jason Wilson with an Introduction by Malcolm NicolsonMap
Historical Introduction by Malcolm Nicolson
Introduction by Jason Wilson
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Further Reading
PERSONAL NARRATIVE
Author's Introduction
Notes
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