Aspects of nature, in different lands and different climates (Vol. 1 of 2)

Alexander von Humboldt and Elizabeth Juliana Sabine

Alexander von Humboldt wrote science that reads like poetry. This first volume carries the reader across steppes and deserts, down the thundering cataracts of the Orinoco, and into the nocturnal clamor of the tropical forest. Observation fused with wonder by the age's greatest naturalist. Follow Humboldt into the wild face of the earth.