Aspects of nature, in different lands and different climates
Subtitle: with scientific elucidations
By: by Alexander von Humboldt ; translated by Mrs. Sabine.
Contributors: Sabine, Elizabeth Juliana Leeves, 1807-1879.
Edition: [3rd ed.]
Series: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary -- 17375-17382.
Publisher: J. Murray; Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
Published: 1849
Place of publication: London
Format: Microform
Subjects: Physical geography; Plant morphology; South America -- Description and travel
Work titles: Ansichten der Natur.
Table of contents: title: 1. Steppes and deserts. Cataracts of the Orinoco. Nocturnal life of animals in the primeval forest. Hypsometric addenda.; title: 2. Physiognomy of plants. On the structure and mode of action of volcanos, in different parts of the globe. The vital force, or the Rhodian genius. The plateau of Caxamarca, the ancient capital of the Inca Atahuallpa, and the first view of the Pacific Ocean, from the crest of the Andes.