Jaguars and Electric Eels (Penguin Great Journeys) - Softcover

Von Humboldt, Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014102545X ISBN 13: 9780141025452

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2007

Synopsis

A great, innovative and restless thinker, the young Humboldt (1769-1859) went on his epochal journey to the New World during a time of revolutionary ferment across Europe. This part of his matchless narrative of adventure and scientific research focuses on his time in Venezuela - in the Llanos and on the Orinoco River - riding and paddling, restlessly and happily noting the extraordinary things on every hand.

Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries – but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

About this title

About the Author:

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was a Prussian naturalist and explorer. Between 1799 and 1804, von Humboldt travelled South and Central America, exploring and describing it from a scientific point of view for the first time.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 014102545X
• ISBN 13: 9780141025452
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 112