Views of nature /
'Views of Nature,' or 'Ansichten der Natur,' was Alexander von Humboldt's best-known and most influential work. While the essays that comprise it are themselves remarkable as innovative, early pieces of nature writing, the book's extensive endnotes incorporate some of H...
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Concerning the steppes and deserts
- 2. Concerning the waterfalls of the Orinoco near Atures and Maypures
- 3. The nocturnal wildlife of the primeval forest
- 4. Hypsometric addenda
- 5. Ideas for a physiognomy of plants
- 6. Concerning the structure and action of volcanoes in various regions of the Earth
- 7. The life force, or the Rhodian genius
- 8. The plateau of Cajamarca, the old residential city of the Inca Atahualpa; first sight of the Pacific from the ridge of the Andes chain.