A Life in Shadow: Aimé Bonpland in Southern South America, 1817-1858
French naturalist and medical doctor Aimé Bonpland (1773-1858) was one of the most important scientific explorers of South America in the early nineteenth century. From 1799 to 1804, he worked alongside Alexander von Humboldt as the latter carried out his celebrated research in northern South America, but he later returned to conduct his own research farther south. A Life in Shadow accounts for the entire span of Bonpland's remarkable and diverse career in South America-in Argentina, Paraguay (where he was imprisoned for nearly a decade), Uruguay, and southernmost Brazil-based on extensive archival material. The study reconnects Bonpland's di…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8047-5260-2
- EAN: 9780804752602
- Produktnummer: 7302780
- Verlag: Stanford Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.9 cm x D3.0 cm 612 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 612
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Stephen Bell is Associate Professor of Geography and History at UCLA. He is the author of Campanha Gaúcha: A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850-1920 (Stanford University Press, 1998), which was awarded the 1999 Warren Dean Memorial Prize.
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