Aspects of nature
Subtitle: in different landsand different climates; with scientific elucidations
By: By Alexander von Humboldt. Tr. by Mrs. Sabine.
Contributors: Sabine, Mrs. Elizabeth Juliana (Leeves), 1807-1879.
Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans (etc.)
Published: 1849
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Science.; Physical geography.; Botany -- Morphology.; South America -- Description and travel.
Table of contents: title: I. Steppes and deserts. Cataracts of the Orinoco. Nocturnal life of animals in the primeval forest. Hypsometric addenda.; title: II. Physiognony 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 Andes.