Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Vol.2

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LibriVox recording of Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Vol.2 by Alexander von Humboldt; Aimé Bonpland. (Translated by Thomasina Ross.) Read in English by Gail Timmerman Vaughan In Volume 2 of “The Personal Narrative”, Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland continue their travels, beginning at Lake Valencia in the llanos of Venezuela and then travelling the mighty South American river, the Orinoco, and its tributaries, for 75 days in a dugout canoe, guided by local Indians and accompanied by one of the local missionaries. As in Volume 1, von Humboldt describes the people, plants, animals, geography and geology of the region. These descriptions include his famous experiments on electic eels as well as descriptions of the arrau tortoise, river porpoises, crocodiles, jaguars and caribe (flesh eating) fish. Likewise there are narratives of the sights, sounds and smells of the scenery through which they passed, and accounts of the peoples of the Orinoco basin. Their canoe carried themselves and their provisions, but also their scientific instruments, collections, and a menagerie of caged birds and monkeys. von…

Directors & creators

Alexander von Humboldt; Aimé Bonpland

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;nature; South America; biogeography

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