Research Catalog

Title

South America called them ; explorations of the great naturalists: La Condamine, Humboldt, Darwin, Spruce / [by] Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen.

Author

Von Hagen, Victor Wolfgang, 1908-1985.

Publication

New York : A.A. Knopf, 1945.

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Details

Description

xii, 311, ix, 1 unnumbered page : frontispiece, plates, portraits, maps; 22 cm

Subject

• Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
• Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859
• La Condamine, Charles-Marie de, 1701-1774
• South America > Description and travel
• Spruce, Richard, 1817-1893
• Viagens E Exploracoes

Note

• "First edition."

Bibliography (note)

• "Bibliographical references": p. 299-307.

Contents

pt. 1. Charles-Marie de La Condamine: ch. 1. "Joyfull newes out of the newe founde worlde" -- ch. 2. Les grandes aplatisseurs -- ch. 3. The door to America is opened -- ch. 4. Expedition to the Equator -- ch. 5. The conquest of the heights -- ch. 6. Death and triangulation -- ch. 7. Pyramids on the moon -- ch. 8. The dark river of tragedy -- ch. 9. The triumphs of La Condamine -- pt. 2. Alexander von Humboldt: ch. 10. Humboldt's America -- ch. 11. The Llanos of Venezuela -- ch. 12. The Orinoco yields its secret -- ch. 13. The kingdom of New Granada -- ch. 14. The realm of the Quitus -- ch. 15. The ascent of Chimborazo -- ch. 16. The rediscovery of America -- pt. 3. Charles Robert Darwin: ch. 17. Erasmus Darwin's grandson -- ch. 18. The naturalists open Brazil -- ch. 19. Dictators and fossils -- ch. 20. The land of fire -- ch. 21. Chile of the crazy geography -- ch. 22. The Galápagos begets evolution -- ch. 23. "I am an author" -- pt. 4. Richard Spruce: ch. 24. Richard Spruce, Yorkshireman -- ch. 25. The great mother forest -- ch. 26. The land of the Amazons -- ch. 27. In Humboldt's country -- ch. 28. "On her Britannic majesty's service" -- ch. 29. Cinchona, the fever bark -- ch. 30. South America calling.

LCCN

45000783

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries