Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent

The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) travelled to South America in 1799. Five years of research there resulted in numerous publications. This seven-volume English translation of his Relation historique du voyage (1814-1825) appeared between 1814 and 1829. Volume 5 (1821) describes Humboldt's exploration of the Orinoco basin.