by Alexander von Humboldt · F. A. Brockhaus · tapa dura · ISBN 9783765301605
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«Vom Orinoko zum Amazonas» is Alexander von Humboldt's travel account, published by F. A. Brockhaus in hardback (420 pages, in German).
Alexander von Humboldt narrates his journey through South America across the equatorial regions, from the Orinoco to the Amazon, and presents his findings in botany, zoology and geography. The work combines the account of the expedition with scientific observations of the landscape and nature of the New Continent.
This 1980 edition is an abridged version of «Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent», with translation by Hermann Hauff, adaptation by Adalbert Plott, introduction by Adolf Meyer-Abich, index and plates.
For readers interested in the history of explorations, geography and the natural sciences of South America.
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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.
