Scientific Travellers 1790-1877 - Scientific Travellers, 1790-1877 Author:John White, Alexander Von Humboldt, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Henry Walter Bates, Alfred Russel Wallace, Thomas Baines Published in association with the British Natural History Museum, this collection brings together facsimiles of six classic works by eighteenth and nineteenth-century scientist-travelers studying natural philosophy as well as natural history. Including accounts from Australia, Asia, Africa, and South America, the set covers a wide geographical s... more »pread.
The six works in Scientific Travellers, 1789-1874 are published in nine volumes, printed on acid-free paper and bound for library use. The works include:
* John White, Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales (1790)
[ISBN: 0-415-28932-7]
* Alexander von Humboldt, Aspects of Nature in Different Lands and Different Climates (1849)
[ISBN: 0-415-28933-5]
* Joseph Hooker, Himalayan Journals (1854) in two parts
[Part One ISBN: 0-415-28934-3 * Part Two ISBN: 0-415-28935-1]
* H.W. Bates, Naturalist on the River Amazons (1863) in two parts
[Part One ISBN: 0-415-28936-X * Part Two ISBN: 0-415-28937-8
* A.R. Wallace, The Malay Archipelago (1869) in two parts
[Part One ISBN: 0-415-28938-6 * Part Two ISBN: 0-415-28939-4]
* Thomas Baines, The Gold Regions of South-East Africa (1877)