TY - BOOK ID - 85465720 TI - Personal narrative of travels : to the equinoctial regions of the new continent during the years 1799-1804. AU - Humboldt, Alexander von AU - Bonpland, Aimé AU - Williams, Helen Maria PY - 2011 SN - 051192027X 1108027954 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Natural history KW - Scientific expeditions. KW - South America KW - Description and travel. KW - Expeditions, Scientific KW - Scientific voyages KW - Travels KW - Voyages, Scientific KW - Voyages and travels KW - Description and travel UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85465720 AB - The Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was one of the most famous explorers of his generation. Charles Darwin called him 'the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived'. In 1799, Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland secured permission from the Spanish crown for a voyage to South America. They left from Madrid and spent five years exploring the continent. Humboldt reported his findings in a total of thirty volumes, published in French over a period of more than twenty years beginning in 1805. This English translation by Helen Maria Williams of one important component of Humboldt's account, the Relation historique du voyage (1814-1825), consists of seven volumes and was published in London between 1814 and 1829. Volume 3 (1818) describes the mountains, flora and fauna of Venezuela, and its indigenous peoples, especially the Chayma, focusing particularly on their language. ER -