CONTENTS
| Page | |
|---|---|
| Publisher’s Preface | [v] |
| Author’s Preface, to the First Edition | [ix] |
| Author’s Preface, to the Second and Third Editions | [xi] |
| Summary of Contents | [xvii] |
| Steppes and Deserts | [1] |
| Illustrations and Additions | [22] |
| Cataracts of the Orinoco | [153] |
| Illustrations and Additions | [174] |
| Nocturnal Life of Animals in the Primeval Forest | [191] |
| Illustrations and Additions | [202] |
| Hypsometric Addenda | [204] |
| Ideas for a Physiognomy of Plants | [210] |
| Illustrations and Additions | [232] |
| On the Structure and Mode of Action of Volcanos in different parts of the Earth | [353] |
| Illustrations and Additions | [376] |
| Vital Force, or The Rhodian Genius | [380] |
| Illustration and Note | [386] |
| The Plateau of Caxamarca, the Ancient Capital of the Inca Atahuallpa, and First View of the Pacific from the Ridge of the Andes | [390] |
| Illustrations and Additions | [421] |
| Index | [437] |
FAC-SIMILE OF THE HAND-WRITING OF BARON HUMBOLDT.
EXTRACTS OF A LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER.