THE ATHENAEUMPersonal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, Volume 1Alexander von Humboldt
Natural History
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, Volume 1
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textAlexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland spent five years in Spanish America, from 1799 to 1804, measuring everything from the blue of the sky to the heat of the sea. This is the first volume of Humboldt’s narrative, in English. Darwin read it at Cambridge and said it stirred in him a burning zeal to add something of his own to natural science.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 13 hr 55 min
- Where to find it
- The Naturalist’s Cabinet
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #6322. In the public domain in the United States.