Sphinx - Geheimnisse der Geschichte Tropenfieber 2 - Vorstoss am Orinoco (1994– ) Online

Sphinx - Geheimnisse der Geschichte Tropenfieber 2 - Vorstoss am Orinoco (1994– ) Online

In the early summer of 1799, the German baron Alexander von Humboldt set out for the Orinoco stream in the then still practically unexplored, largely un- or wrongly mapped upper Amazonian with his intimate friend, French physician and botanist Aimé Bonpland, Indian porters-rowers and the best available scientific instruments, which he knew exactly how to use, care for and repair. His original, pen-illustrated journals document many details, even how he sort of fled the Prussian capital Berlin, with precise and elaborate ambitions to study both many details and the way how nature and anthropology fit together, the topic of his main work, Kosmos. The South Americans still remember his studies of Indians, thousands of species etcetera as the continent's true discovery. They spared no efforts, regardless of danger and physical discomfort, with unprecedented scientific devotion and respect for the natives.