Stars, Mosquitoes and Crocodiles: The American Travels of Alexander Von Humboldt

This volume contains carefully edited and abridged selections from Humboldt's early nineteenth-century masterpiece, "Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America During the Years 1799-1804," supplemented with excerpts from other writings of Humboldt that describe the remainder of his travels in South America, Cuba, Mexico, and the United States up to 1804.