Views of nature
Subtitle: or, Contemplations on the sublime phenomena of creation.
By: With scientific illustrations. By Alexander von Humboldt. Tr. from the German. By E. C. Otte  and H. G. Bohn.
Contributors: Otte , E. C.; Bohn, Henry George, 1796-1884.
Series: Bohn's scientific library
Publisher: Bell & Daldy
Published: 1869
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
Subjects: Science.; Physical geography.; Botany -- Morphology.; South America -- Description and travel.
Notes: What was cop.2, reprinted 1975 by Arno Press, has been recatted to: Q161 .H8313 1975.
Table of contents: title: Steppes and deserts.; title: On the cataracts of the Orinoco.; title: Nocturnal life of animals in the primeval forests.; title: Ideas for a physiognomy of plants.; title: On the structure and mode of action of volcanos in different parts of the earth.; title: Vital force, or The Rhodian genius.; title: The plateau of Caxamarca, the ancient capital of the Inca Atahuallpa, and first view of the Pacific from the ridge of the Andes.