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PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY TO THE E Pb - 1996
by VON HUMBOLDT,ALEXAN
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- Title PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY TO THE E
- Author VON HUMBOLDT,ALEXAN
- Binding pb
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Condition New
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, London
- Date May 1, 1996
- Abridged Yes
- Features Abridged
- Bookseller's Inventory # 9780140445534
- ISBN 9780140445534 / 0140445536
- Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.12 x 0.98 in (20.07 x 13.00 x 2.49 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Library of Congress subjects Scientific expeditions, South America - Description and travel
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96150402
- Dewey Decimal Code 918
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First line
Twelve years have elapsed since I left Europe to explore the interior of the New Continent.
From the rear cover
Alexander von Humboldt became a wholly new kind of nineteenth-century hero - the scientist-explorer - and in Personal Narrative he invented a new literary genre, the travelogue. Between 1799 and 1804 he explored the tropical Spanish Americas, by his death in 1859 he had won international fame. He was the first European to discuss, draw and speculate on Aztec art, the first to observe reverse polarity in magnetism, the first to propagate the notion of seismic waves, the first to discover why America is called America. A true Romantic, an admirer of Rousseau and close friend of Goethe, Humboldt was a passionate observer, never a colonial despoiler, and his writings made a profound impact upon the course of Victorian science. This volume contains a fascinating selection from Humboldt's original 1,997 pages of Personal Narrative, in the first English translation to appear since 1851.