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Stars, Mosquitoes and Crocodiles: The American Travels of Alexander Von Humboldt
Stars Mosquitoes and Crocodiles The American Travels of Alexander Von Humboldt Author:Alexander Von Humboldt This volume contains carefully edited and abridged selections from Humboldt's early nineteenth-century masterpiece, "Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America During the Years 1799-1804," supplemented with excerpts from other writings of Humboldt that describe the remainder of his travels in South America, Cuba, Mexico,... more » and the United States up to 1804.« less