UID:
almafu_9960118838502883
Format:
1 online resource (377 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-92390-0
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Latin American studies
Uniform Title:
Essai politique sur le royoume de la Nouvelle Espagne.
Content:
The acclaimed Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was referred to by Charles Darwin as 'the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived'. Several of his works were in the library aboard the Beagle, including the multi-volume Personal Narrative of Travels, two books on geology and Tableaux de la nature (all reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection). Darwin's copy of this two-volume 1811 New York edition of Humboldt's Political Essay (originally published in French earlier that year) is inscribed 'Buenos Ayres', suggesting he acquired it there in 1832-3, without its accompanying atlas (forthcoming). Humboldt had spent a year in Mexico in 1803-4, and was struck by its 'civilization' as compared to regions of South America that he had visited earlier on his expedition. Volume 2 of his account contains information about the population, language and key features of each district of Mexico, and about the country's agriculture.
Note:
Originally published in London, printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown in 1811.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-07790-0
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139923903
