by Alexander von Humboldt · Boer · tapa dura · ISBN 9783966624817
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«Reise in die Aequinoktial-Gegenden des neuen Kontinents Band 2» is the second volume of Alexander von Humboldt's travel narrative, in hardback.
The second volume of this classic recounts the journey of Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland across the American continent between 1799 and 1804, with particular attention to tropical regions. In Hermann Hauff's German adaptation, observations on geography, geology, botany and ethnography follow one another, making the chronicle a fundamental work of scientific travel literature.
The work derives from Humboldt's «Relation historique», published in French from 1814 in three quarto volumes; Hermann Hauff adapted it into German. This Boer edition, 384 pages, was released in April 2025.
It will appeal to readers of the history of science, naturalists, and those seeking classics of scientific exploration.
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography, while his advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement pioneered modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring. Humboldt and Carl Ritter are both regarded as the founders of modern geography as they established it as an independent scientific discipline.
