Die Erzählung beschreibt eine abenteuerliche Reise auf dem Rio Negro und dem Cassiquiare, wo die Protagonisten den Verlauf dieser bedeutenden Flüsse zwischen Orinoco und Amazonas erforschen. Während die Expedition von Herausforderungen wie übermäßiger Feuchtigkeit und schlechtem Wetter geprägt ist, bleibt das Ziel klar: astronomische Beobachtungen zur genauen Kartierung des Flussverlaufs. Trotz der Schwierigkeiten und der Versuchung, einen kürzeren Rückweg zu wählen, halten die Reisenden an ihrem ursprünglichen Plan fest, um die geographischen Geheimnisse der Region zu enthüllen.
Alexander Humboldt Book order (chronological)
Alexander von Humboldt was a German naturalist and explorer whose quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundations for biogeography. His extensive travels through Latin America between 1799 and 1804 offered a modern scientific perspective on the region for the first time. Humboldt's ambitious five-volume work, Kosmos, attempted to unify the diverse branches of scientific knowledge. He was an early proponent of the idea that continents like South America and Africa were once joined, leaving a lasting impact on scientific understanding.
All Quiet on the Western Front
- 304 pages
- 11 hours of reading
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SEBASTIAN FAULKS 'We are no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From our lives. We were eighteen and had begun to love the world and to love being in it; but we had to shoot at it. The first shell to land went straight for our hearts. We've been cut of from real action, from getting on, from progress. We don't believe in those things any more; we believe in the war.' Written in memory of a generation of young men who arrived at the front fresh from the schoolroom, a generation utterly devasted by war, because the few that survived were left unfit for peace; at once tender and brutal, immediate and profound - All Quiet on the Western Front is a testament to the pity, horror and waste of the First World War, and a passionate plea to prevent its repetition.
Populárně vědecká kniha z Humboldtovy cesty do Ameriky, česky poprvé vyšla již roku 1863. Přítomné vydání je doplněno obšírným úvodem překladatele. Doplněné vědeckými výklady. Díl I. : O stepích a pouštích, O vodopádech Orinoka u Atur a Maypur, Hypsometrické dodatky. Autor je uveden jako Alexandr z Humboldtů.