Jaguars and Electric Eels
A great, innovative and restless thinker, the young Humboldt (1769-1859) went on his epochal journey to the New World during a time of revolutionary ferment across Europe. This part of his matchless narrative of adventure and scientific research focuses on his time in Venezuela - in the Llanos and on the Orinoco River - riding and paddling, restlessly and happily noting the extraordinary things on every hand.Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-14-196714-1
- EAN: 9780141967141
- Produktnummer: 17835646
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 112 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'763 KB
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Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was a Prussian naturalist and explorer. Between 1799 and 1804, von Humboldt travelled South and Central America, exploring and describing it from a scientific point of view for the first time.
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